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Dick Durbin: “Judge Gorsuch's record also shows hostility to the Constitution's protections of the most personal and intimate…”

On the recordMarch 19, 2017
Judge Gorsuch's record also shows hostility to the Constitution's protections of the most personal and intimate decisions, which is the basis for the right to birth control and the right to abortion.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Durbin accuses Gorsuch of undermining constitutional protections regarding personal decisions.

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