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Neil Gorsuch: “That is your constitutional responsibility, and this body's, and it would be presumptuous of me as a judge at once to…”

On the recordMarch 19, 2017
That is your constitutional responsibility, and this body's, and it would be presumptuous of me as a judge at once to say I like or dislike the work of the U.S. Supreme Court as a lower court judge.
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Neil Gorsuch

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Gorsuch asserts the Senate's role in judicial confirmations is constitutional.

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