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Jim Sensenbrenner: Currently we do have a body of law with a substantial deference standard that is in the current law that this…

On the recordJune 3, 2009
Currently we do have a body of law with a substantial deference standard that is in the current law that this legislation repeals and does not substitute another standard and basically makes this a matter of judicial discretion.
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Jim Sensenbrenner
Republican · Wisconsin

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He expresses concern about losing legal certainty with proposed changes to information suppression standards.

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