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On the recordNovember 3, 2021
Part of the challenge that many of us have with this current extreme, right-wing Supreme Court is that, engineered by Mitch McConnell, he stole, not one, but two Supreme Court Justices--one from President Obama and the other from President Biden--explicitly, to jam these types of extreme laws down the throats of the American people.
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Hakeem Jeffries
Democratic · New York

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Jeffries criticizes the Supreme Court's composition and its impact on American laws.

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