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On the recordMarch 20, 2022
Why in the world would you call Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld and George W. Bush war criminals in a legal filing?
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John Cornyn
Republican · Texas

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Cornyn questions Jackson's past legal representation of a Taliban member.

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