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On the recordOctober 21, 2025
I have thought that the norms that we have in America are norms that make a great deal of sense because they have a value associated with them, and that value is the fair administration of justice without prejudice, the fair administration without targeting political enemies. I think, oh, I read about the targeting of political enemies that happened in some country far away, where a president who didn't share the values that we have here in the United States of America went after their political enemies by falsely pursuing them in a criminal sense. But then I realized, no, that is happening right here in the United States of America. A President of the United States: I will file a suit against the government, and then I will tell the Justice Department to pay it off and put that money in my pocket. I mean, I was stunned by reading that new version.
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

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Discussing concerns about the fair administration of justice and political targeting in the U.S.

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