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Steve Cohen: “What I fear is that in a circumstance like this where the real issue is the substantive law, as I indicated earlier…”

On the recordSeptember 28, 2015
What I fear is that in a circumstance like this where the real issue is the substantive law, as I indicated earlier, that we are really focused in the wrong place.
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee

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Cohen expresses concern about misdirected focus in legal discussions.

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