Ben Cardin: “I believe that this ruling--and how the regional and international community reacts--represents a watershed moment for…”

It was originally a piece of legislation targeting the people who killed Sergei Magnitsky.

We are going to do something about this.

There is no reason why somebody should be sanctioned in America and not in Europe or not in the U.K.

I introduced the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act as a way of saying that we will hold abusers accountable even if their own country does not.