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Barack Obama: “Justice is not about abstract legal theory, nor some footnote in a dusty casebook.”

On the recordMarch 15, 2016
Justice is not about abstract legal theory, nor some footnote in a dusty casebook.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Statement on the Selection of a Nominee for United States Supreme Court Associate Justice

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