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Eric Holder: It is not prosecutorial discretion to go into a law and say an entire category of people will no longer be subject to…

On the recordJanuary 27, 2015
It is not prosecutorial discretion to go into a law and say an entire category of people will no longer be subject to the law.
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Eric Holder
Democratic · District of Columbia

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Arguing that changing laws for specific groups is a legislative act.

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