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Jamie Raskin: “There are a whole series of crimes in the middle of the Venn diagram which are both high crimes and misdemeanors and…”

On the recordDecember 16, 2019
There are a whole series of crimes in the middle of the Venn diagram which are both high crimes and misdemeanors and also possibly statutory crimes.
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Jamie Raskin
Democratic · Maryland

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Raskin discusses the overlap of constitutional and statutory crimes in impeachment articles.

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