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Peter Welch: “That's politics, that's not really having anything to do with the independence of prosecutorial discretion.”

On the recordJuly 6, 2016
That's politics, that's not really having anything to do with the independence of prosecutorial discretion.
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Peter Welch
Democratic · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Welch distinguishes political debates from legal processes.

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