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On the recordJuly 7, 2009
I think the Supreme Court has outstepped its bounds more than once with regard to these issues that have to do with the detainees.
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Steve King
Republican · Iowa

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King criticizes the Supreme Court for overreaching in its decisions related to detainees.

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