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Rob Portman: “I went to law school, so did Senator McCaskill, and we do not remember learning that instructions to cover up a crime…”

On the recordJanuary 9, 2017
I went to law school, so did Senator McCaskill, and we do not remember learning that instructions to cover up a crime are protected speech.
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Rob Portman
Republican · Ohio

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Portman challenges the claim that covering up crimes is protected by the First Amendment.

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