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On the recordJune 30, 2010
Your former colleague at the University of Chicago, Richard Epstein, said, 'Any constitutional doctrine that stood in the way of the comprehensive social or economic reforms'... had to be rejected or circumvented.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions cites Epstein to highlight the risks of progressive legal views on the Constitution.

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