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On the recordMarch 21, 2022
So, I suppose then, if you`re confirmed, we can just count on you to always rule in favor of retroactivity, no matter what the facts of the case are, because it was a blatant, blatant rewrite of the law here, so you could reduce the Senate`s of a drug kingpin who you didn`t like sentencing to 20 years in the first place.
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Tom Cotton
Republican · Arkansas
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msnbc.com

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Tom Cotton questions Ketanji Brown Jackson's potential rulings if confirmed.

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