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Chuck Grassley: “Some of us believe that judges are supposed to interpret the law as it was understood when written, not make new law or…”

On the recordMarch 20, 2022
Some of us believe that judges are supposed to interpret the law as it was understood when written, not make new law or simply fill in a vacuum.
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Chuck Grassley
Republican · Iowa

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Grassley distinguishes between originalism and living constitutionalism in judicial philosophy.

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