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Chris Coons: “Constitutionally dubious for a criminal prosecutor to have the responsibility to investigate the President.”

On the recordDecember 31, 1998
Constitutionally dubious for a criminal prosecutor to have the responsibility to investigate the President.
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Chris Coons
Democratic · Delaware

Editor's note · Context

Coons references Kavanaugh's past statement on the role of prosecutors regarding the President.

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