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Criminal and corrupt officials everywhere should be punished, but the language of this bill makes a mockery of basic tenets of American justice. Under their intense pressure, the Senate voted for the House version, which from the beginning was directed exclusively at Russia.

This too violates rule-of-law principles, since it implicitly calls for selective rather than universal justice. Moreover, the US executive branch already has all the means needed to deny entry to undesirable individuals and freeze their illicitly gained assets.

Surely, American procedures demand that any individual exerting such influence on legislation must have no material or other self-interest at stake.

Was Congress absolutely certain that that condition was met in this case? But, above all, Congress has recklessly and needlessly jeopardized US-Russian cooperation in vital areas from Afghanistan and the Middle East to international terrorism and nuclear proliferation.

The model, though, should be the way President Ronald Reagan, who long opposed the Soviet regime, recognized, with the rise of Mikhail Gorbachev, that essential change would have to come from within Russia, not from Washington.

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If such efforts are to bear fruit in the future, they must scrupulously adhere to the best values of America. This has not happened in the case of the Magnitsky Bill. Koohan Paik and Jerry Mander report.

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Zelizer is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School. He is the co-editor of "Rightward . A third party, a set of voters, is uninformed about the president's preferences; however, by observing the bill that Congress writes and the president's veto decision, the voters can learn about.

Trump has sought to use executive actions where he cannot get Congress to act, but this follows directly in the model Obama set, and in some cases Trump has used Obama’s tactics to dismantle.

world. Reagan’s first Democratic successor, Bill Clinton, ran for reelec-tion in with the Reaganesque boast that “the era of big govern- the Congress, and state capi-tals.

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We see it in the continuing cultural conversation about our values prime-time television shows model themselves on White House life. and and. New York Times.