Ben Cardin: “I personally believe the legal community has a specific responsibility as it relates to providing access to justice to…”

We imposed sanctions on the individual.

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.

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

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