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Dick Durbin: “They want to give the power back to the states. They want to ignore the 14th Amendment in the middle of the 19th century…”

On the recordJuly 18, 2022
They want to give the power back to the states. They want to ignore the 14th Amendment in the middle of the 19th century which really conferred on individual Americans rights as citizens that hadn`t been recognized before.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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msnbc.com

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Durbin critiques the Republican approach to state power and individual rights.

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