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Steve Cohen: “The fundamental purpose of the pardon power is to ensure fairness and proportionality in our criminal justice system and…”

On the recordMarch 26, 2019
The fundamental purpose of the pardon power is to ensure fairness and proportionality in our criminal justice system and to provide a check against miscarriages of justice.
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee

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Cohen discusses the importance of the pardon power in the justice system.

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