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Mary Gay Scanlon: How can we say then that he should be beyond the reach of the law?

On the recordDecember 16, 2019
How can we say then that he should be beyond the reach of the law?
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Mary Gay Scanlon
Democratic · Pennsylvania

Editor's note · Context

Scanlon questions the idea of presidential immunity from legal accountability.

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