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Eric Holder: “It is unfair that the local communities wherever these cases might be tried should bear a disproportionate share for…”

On the recordFebruary 23, 2010
It is unfair that the local communities wherever these cases might be tried should bear a disproportionate share for what in essence, as I said, are national crimes.
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Eric Holder
Democratic · District of Columbia

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Holder argues for national funding to support local communities during 9/11 trials.

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