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Neil Gorsuch: “This overweening addiction to the courtroom as the place to debate social policy is bad for the country and bad for the…”

On the recordMarch 19, 2017
This overweening addiction to the courtroom as the place to debate social policy is bad for the country and bad for the judiciary.
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Neil Gorsuch

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Gorsuch criticizes using courts for social policy debates.

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