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John Ratcliffe: “There comes a point when something amounts to a wholesale abandonment to enforce a duly enacted constitutional law that…”

On the recordJuly 13, 2015
There comes a point when something amounts to a wholesale abandonment to enforce a duly enacted constitutional law that is beyond simple prosecutorial discretion.
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John Ratcliffe
Republican · Texas

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Ratcliffe discusses limits of prosecutorial discretion in enforcing laws.

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