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On the recordNovember 17, 2009
I do not recall any complaints from either the Republican side of the aisle of their President, President Bush's decision through his Department of Justice, to try that case in an Article III court.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Durbin compares past and current legal proceedings for terrorists.

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