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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

Editor's note · Context

Johnson discusses limits on prosecutorial discretion regarding law enforcement.

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