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Melvin Watt: I want to be clear, I have never said habeas is completely irrelevant to terrorism.

On the recordMarch 14, 1996
I want to be clear, I have never said habeas is completely irrelevant to terrorism.
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Melvin Watt
North Carolina

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Clarifying his stance on habeas corpus in relation to terrorism.

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