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Neil Gorsuch: But that does not mean just because there is not a single foreordained answer from God in every legal dispute that…

On the recordMarch 19, 2017
But that does not mean just because there is not a single foreordained answer from God in every legal dispute that judges are not trying to look at the legal materials and only the legal materials and trying to make sense of the legal materials, and that alone, and leaving the rest of the stuff aside.
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Neil Gorsuch

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Judges strive to interpret the law based solely on legal materials, not personal beliefs.

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