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On the recordDecember 5, 2011
Oral arguments often give very little insight into how that opinion would come out, and sometimes judges change their minds from the oral argument date to the time they write an opinion.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions discusses the limited impact of oral arguments on judicial decisions.

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