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Eric Holder: “Sure. That is the law, as the Supreme Court has given it to me.”

On the recordJanuary 14, 2009
Sure. That is the law, as the Supreme Court has given it to me.
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Eric Holder
Democratic · District of Columbia

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Holder commits to defending the Heller ruling on the Second Amendment.

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