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Howard Berman: “Reclaiming my time. Because under this bill, they can decide to violate that Supreme Court decision, and the West…”

On the recordJuly 19, 2006
Reclaiming my time. Because under this bill, they can decide to violate that Supreme Court decision, and the West Virginia Supreme Court, now the final arbiter of it, says, we did not like that decision in the first place, and now the Supreme Court cannot take jurisdiction of this case, so they decide to reverse, for West Virginia purposes, the Barnette case that the Supreme Court decided in 1944, and this bill strips away the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court to say, you did not follow our precedent.
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Howard Berman
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