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Mike Lee: I think that is a little bit different than prosecutorial discretion, isn't it? Isn't that a mandate not to enforce the…

On the recordJune 10, 2014
I think that is a little bit different than prosecutorial discretion, isn't it? Isn't that a mandate not to enforce the law?
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Mike Lee
Republican · Utah

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Senator Lee questions the difference between prosecutorial discretion and a directive not to enforce laws.

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