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Dick Durbin: “I do not buy that. I do not think that the decisions of courts are so robotic, so programmatic, that all you need to do…”

On the recordMarch 19, 2017
I do not buy that. I do not think that the decisions of courts are so robotic, so programmatic, that all you need to do is look at the facts and look at the law and there is an obvious conclusion.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Durbin expresses skepticism about a purely factual approach to judicial decisions.

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