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Chuck Grassley: “Don't you think that before the President--a President, in this case, President Clinton--decides to overturn the…”

On the recordJanuary 14, 2009
Don't you think that before the President--a President, in this case, President Clinton--decides to overturn the sentences of people like those in the video that we just showed doing what I said that they were doing, that the Justice Department ought to make sure that the President is aware of the important facts like these that I just stated?
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Chuck Grassley
Republican · Iowa

Editor's note · Context

Grassley questions the need for the Justice Department to inform the President before clemency decisions.

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