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Olympia Snowe: “The bottom line is we are treating these people as second-class citizens if they do not have access to the procedures…”

On the recordJune 19, 1996
The bottom line is we are treating these people as second-class citizens if they do not have access to the procedures guaranteed constitutionally under the law of the United States simply because of the Supreme Court ruling.
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Olympia Snowe
Republican · Maine

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Discussing the implications of a Supreme Court ruling on citizens' rights.

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