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On the recordMarch 20, 2022
As Justice Scalia taught us, an indispensable feature of the republic the Constitution created is an independent judiciary of judges who've taken an oath not to a President or a party, but to the American people and to God that they will be impartial.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Durbin cites Scalia on the importance of an independent judiciary.

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