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Dick Durbin: “We do not have to cross that line, and we all kind of know where that line is.”

On the recordJune 18, 2012
We do not have to cross that line, and we all kind of know where that line is.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Durbin discusses the importance of maintaining ethical boundaries in justice.

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