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Keith Ellison: Some people might think that having a blue ribbon panel such as contemplated in H.R. 104 might be a backward-looking…

On the recordJanuary 21, 2009
Some people might think that having a blue ribbon panel such as contemplated in H.R. 104 might be a backward-looking process and sort of be something about settling old scores now that the Dems have the White House and the Congress. But in your opinion as a lawyer of many years, what would such a process do in terms of signaling that such presidential behavior from a future President might not be permissible or might not be condoned if we were to have such a process?
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Keith Ellison
Minnesota

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Discussing the implications of H.R. 104 and the establishment of a blue ribbon panel.

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