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Bob Goodlatte: “Prosecutorial discretion is one thing, but wholesale suspension of law is quite something else.”

On the recordDecember 2, 2013
Prosecutorial discretion is one thing, but wholesale suspension of law is quite something else.
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Bob Goodlatte
Republican · Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Goodlatte distinguishes between prosecutorial discretion and the suspension of law.

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