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Barack Obama: “Now the test for a qualified judicial nominee is not simply whether they are intelligent.”

On the recordJune 7, 2005
Now the test for a qualified judicial nominee is not simply whether they are intelligent.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Obama emphasizes that intelligence alone does not qualify a judicial nominee.

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