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On the recordSeptember 14, 2009
It is incredible that anyone in this room on this Committee would suggest that for-profit justice where the decision maker has an economic interest in the outcome of the case is equivalent to our constitutional system of justice.
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee

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Cohen criticizes the idea of for-profit justice undermining the constitutional system.

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