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On the recordJune 9, 2014
But the judges here average more than 1,000 decisions in a given year, and one of you actually completed more than 2,000 decisions in multiple years.
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Tammy Duckworth
Democratic · Illinois

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Duckworth questions the efficiency of judges based on their decision-making statistics.

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