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Lindsey Graham

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Lindsey Olin Graham is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from South Carolina since 2003. A member of the Republican Party, Graham has been a prominent figure in national politics, known for his work on issues such as national security, foreign policy, and judicial appointments. He has played a key role in various legislative efforts and has been an outspoken advocate for military support to Ukraine in recent years.

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Mar 20, 2022

As long as they're dangerous, I hope they all die in jail if they're going to go back and kill Americans.

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Mar 20, 2022

It's 31 percent. How does that strike you? Is that high, low, about right?

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Mar 20, 2022

I'm pretty sure that in your brief, you argued that the executive branch should not have the ability to hold an enemy combatant indefinitely.

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Mar 20, 2022

I have decided to apply my general policy disagreement with respect to those enhancements, at least, that is, the computers and the number of images.

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Mar 20, 2022

I think you're doing it wrong and every judge who does what you're doing is making it easier for the children to be exploited.

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Mar 20, 2022

I hope you go to jail for 50 years if you're on the internet trolling for images of children and sexual exploitation.

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Mar 20, 2022

I think the best way you deter crime when it comes to child pornography is you lower the boom on anybody who goes on the internet and pulls out these images for their pleasure.

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Mar 20, 2022

I have said in the past that I think it's good for the Court to look like America, so count me in on the idea of making the Court more diverse.

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Mar 20, 2022

Everyone deserves a lawyer. You're doing the country a great service when you defend the most unpopular people.

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Mar 20, 2022

The attacks from the left against Judge Childs was really pretty vicious, to be honest with you.

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Mar 20, 2022

I hope you can give us an answer because it shouldn't be hard. Either you do or you don't.

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Mar 20, 2022

I remember Janice Rogers Brown, an African-American woman. It was filibustered by the same people praising you.

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Mar 20, 2022

There is a periodic review process made up of an interagency, where they go through the files of these folks and they determine whether or not they still present a threat to the United States or the world at large.

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Mar 20, 2022

The American people deserve a system where everybody is represented whether you like them or not.

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Mar 20, 2022

I think that every Federal judge out there should make it harder for somebody to go on a computer and view this filth.

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Mar 20, 2022

Elections have consequences. He had many qualified African-American women to choose from. He chose you.

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Mar 20, 2022

I think it's time to look at this system anew, folks.

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Mar 20, 2022

I want people to go to jail who do that, because you're feeding the beast.

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Mar 20, 2022

Is it your view that we can hold enemy combatants as long as they're a threat to the United States?

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Mar 20, 2022

This is a new game for the Supreme Court, and this game is particularly disturbing to me.

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Mar 20, 2022

I just want you to understand that it's important for all of us to know where you were coming from.

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Mar 20, 2022

The reason I mention it is because in one of the briefs, you argued that the executive branch doesn't have that option.

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Mar 20, 2022

So we're still in a state of war with certain elements of radical Islam to this very day?

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Mar 20, 2022

Everybody deserves a lawyer. You're doing the country a great service when you defend the most unpopular people.

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