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On the recordMarch 5, 2013
It strikes me as disproportionate and one that is basically being used inappropriately to try to bully someone into pleading guilty to something that strikes me as rather minor.
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John Cornyn
Republican · Texas

Editor's note · Context

Cornyn criticizes the government's approach to the prosecution as excessive and coercive.

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