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Richard Blumenthal: “I've been alarmed by reports, and I've written to the nominee by the Trump administration for Assistant Attorney General…”

On the recordJuly 18, 2017
I've been alarmed by reports, and I've written to the nominee by the Trump administration for Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust expressing my concern about those reports that indicated that the White House might try to use the merger as a way to impede or intimidate the exercise of First Amendment rights, and you would be troubled as well, I would assume.
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Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut

Editor's note · Context

Blumenthal expresses concern over potential White House interference in First Amendment rights.

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