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Eric Holder: the legislature really has no proper business in the exercise of prosecutorial discretion.

On the recordApril 13, 2010
the legislature really has no proper business in the exercise of prosecutorial discretion.
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Eric Holder
Democratic · District of Columbia

Editor's note · Context

Holder asserts that prosecutorial discretion is an executive branch function.

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