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Schiff

/ ʃɪf /

noun

  1. Andras (ˈɑndrəs). born 1953, Hungarian concert pianist; became British citizen in 2001

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California Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff blasted the decision to end the consent agreement.

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While speaking with reporters in June, Schiff said Huerta was “exercising his lawful right to be present and observe these immigration raids.”

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“It’s obviously a very traumatic thing, and now that it looks like the Justice Department wants to try and make an example out of him, it’s all the more traumatic,” Schiff said.

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Colorful characters abound: the master builder Robert Moses, the imperious Francis Cardinal Spellman, the labor leader “Red Mike” Quill, the civil-rights activist Bayard Rustin, the budding black politician Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the columnist Walter Winchell, the New York Post owner Dorothy Schiff, the seedy leader of American Nazis Fritz Kuhn, Frank Sinatra and many, many others.

But the president’s accidental public posting may have real consequences for the Justice Department’s efforts to prosecute James and Comey, as well as for those further down his list, starting with Schiff.

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