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Ignore a law even after a court upholds it, like you said? >> so ignore is not the concept there, as we discussed when we met. we had a good back and forth on that. the concept is prosecutorial s discretion. that's the concept i referred to, to explain the footnote you're referencing. in prosecutorial discretion, it's obviously firmly rooted. united states versus richard nixon case says the executive branch has the absolute exclusive authority and absolute discretion whether to prosecute a case. that's an exact quote from united states versus richard nixon. then heckler versus cheney says that...
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