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Melanie Stansbury: Hearings like this...are making this country a less just place by perpetrating and repeating hateful speech.

On the recordJune 26, 2024
Hearings like this...are making this country a less just place by perpetrating and repeating hateful speech.
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Melanie Stansbury
Democratic · New Mexico

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She argues that the hearing promotes harmful rhetoric against vulnerable groups.

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