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Hakeem Jeffries: “This is theater. This is a charade. This is stagecraft. This is nothing more than a political hit job on a woman's right…”

On the recordOctober 7, 2015
This is theater. This is a charade. This is stagecraft. This is nothing more than a political hit job on a woman's right to choose, which, by the way, is constitutionally protected.
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Hakeem Jeffries
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Jeffries describes the hearing as a political attack on women's rights.

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