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“Attorney General Eric Holder, who announced his resignation on Thursday, leaves a dismal legacy at the Justice Department, but one of his legal innovations was especially pernicious: the demonizing of state attempts to ensure honest elections.”

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An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides.

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Suspects who are innocent of a crime should. But the thing is, you don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's…

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As a former U.S. attorney general under President Reagan, and a former Ohio secretary of state, we would like to say something that might…

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The implication that everyone would have to accept its judgments uncritically, that it was a decision from which there could be no appeal, was…

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Nicaragua is fast becoming a terrorist country club.

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I was attorney general; my name is Meese. I say, go to college. Don't carry a piece.

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Ascribing racial animus to people who are trying to safeguard democratic integrity is a crude yet effective political tactic that obscures the truth. But…

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You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

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That conclusion is inescapable, given the well-established evidence that voter-ID laws don't disenfranchise minorities or reduce minority voting, and in many instances enhance it,…

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[Nuclear war]... may not be desirable.

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U.S News: You criticize the Miranda ruling, which gives suspects the right to have a lawyer present before police questioning. Shouldn't people, who may…

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You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is…

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