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Dick Durbin: “It is a theory subversive of effective checks and balances, which misreads our constitutional history and which the…”

On the recordSeptember 3, 2018
It is a theory subversive of effective checks and balances, which misreads our constitutional history and which the Supreme Court has so far wisely rejected.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Durbin critiques the unitary executive theory's impact on checks and balances.

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