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Ronald Reagan: “No one has rights when criminals are allowed to prey on society.”

On the recordOctober 28, 1987
No one has rights when criminals are allowed to prey on society.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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Remarks Announcing the Nomination of Douglas H. Ginsburg To Be an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court

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