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Orrin Hatch: Is the Attorney General there to find some plausible, theoretical justification for whatever the President wants to do?

On the recordJanuary 27, 2015
Is the Attorney General there to find some plausible, theoretical justification for whatever the President wants to do?
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Orrin Hatch
Republican · Utah

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Senator Hatch questions the Attorney General's role in justifying presidential actions.

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