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On the recordDecember 6, 2023
some lessons that we have learned for providing special criminal jurisdiction on missing and murdered indigenous people, we could think about applying that to create a drug crime special jurisdiction that could have some of the same positive results, you think?
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Amy Klobuchar
Democratic · Minnesota

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Senator Smith discusses applying special jurisdiction to drug crimes based on lessons learned from indigenous issues.

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