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Chris Coons: “Apply the law as it is, focusing backward, not forward, and looking to text, structure, and history”

On the recordMarch 19, 2017
Apply the law as it is, focusing backward, not forward, and looking to text, structure, and history
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Chris Coons
Democratic · Delaware

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Senator Coons discusses Judge Gorsuch's judicial philosophy on applying the law.

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