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Chuck Grassley: “The cries for increased judicial discretion are actually cover language for leniency.”

On the recordNovember 5, 2013
The cries for increased judicial discretion are actually cover language for leniency.
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Chuck Grassley
Republican · Iowa

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Grassley suggests calls for judicial discretion mask a push for leniency.

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