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On the recordApril 4, 2017
Is the Senator from Oregon aware of the fact that President Trump, during his campaign, released the list of 21 names of potential nominees for the Supreme Court, and then thanked the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation for preparing that list? The Federalist Society--a Republican advocacy group here in Washington, DC--now brags that every member of the Supreme Court appointed by a Republican President has either been a member of or cleared by the Federalist Society before they took the bench.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois
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Apr 4, 2017

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