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Neil Gorsuch: “You would have to have a State that would pass a law like that.”

On the recordMarch 19, 2017
You would have to have a State that would pass a law like that.
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Neil Gorsuch

Editor's note · Context

Gorsuch explains the necessity of a state law for a case to reach the Supreme Court.

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