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Neil Gorsuch: “It has to be a rational reason, not one that I find personally persuasive.”

On the recordMarch 19, 2017
It has to be a rational reason, not one that I find personally persuasive.
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Neil Gorsuch

Editor's note · Context

Gorsuch clarifies that rational basis requires a reason that can be persuasive to someone.

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