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Jeff Sessions: “Well, that is what this was. I mean, you told them: You will either agree to this kind of sentence, or I am going to do…”

On the recordApril 28, 2009
Well, that is what this was. I mean, you told them: You will either agree to this kind of sentence, or I am going to do something that is unprecedented.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions accused the judge of coercing a prosecutor regarding sentencing.

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