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Tom Tancredo: “in fact, this is not a unique situation, unique to the extent that the House has not acted before in a criminal case of…”

On the recordJuly 25, 2007
in fact, this is not a unique situation, unique to the extent that the House has not acted before in a criminal case of this nature, but in fact, the House has acted in the past to intervene in cases where we have determined that the outcome was something we did not agree with. We've done it. We've stripped courts of certain abilities to actually hear cases. In the past, we've actually passed legislation to change or overturn cases. One was, of course, the case of the Ten Commandments. Another one was, I believe, Congressman Bernie Sanders at the time passed a bill to overturn a case with regard to pension funds. So it is not unique that we would be doing this.
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Tom Tancredo
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Discussing the House's historical actions in intervening in judicial cases.

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