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On the recordSeptember 12, 2023
It is, as the Ranking Member said, truly a moral and, I believe, constitutional crisis in our legal system.
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Melanie Stansbury
Democratic · New Mexico

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Stansbury describes the current legal system as facing a moral and constitutional crisis.

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