Ben Cardin: “A new Justice could and very well may have a profound impact on the direction of the court.”

Thank you very much for holding this hearing on the implementation of Global Magnitsky sanctions.

If we are going to carry this as a value on the international stage, that the United States stands up for human rights and certain values and the rule of law, is it not important that we be willing to apply these sanctions to accomplish…

We are going to do something about this.

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