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Jeh Johnson: there comes a point when something amounts to a wholesale abandonment to enforce a dually enacted constitutional law.

On the recordDecember 1, 2014
there comes a point when something amounts to a wholesale abandonment to enforce a dually enacted constitutional law.
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Jeh Johnson
Democratic · New York

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Johnson discusses limits on prosecutorial discretion regarding law enforcement.

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