22 March 2019
Hans von Spakovsky, Manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative and Senior Legal Fellow at the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, discusses whether a civil and/or criminal investigation is needed to determine if Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has broken federal campaign finance laws.
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