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On the recordDecember 13, 2011
We've been here before. In 2004, my Republican colleagues held a hearing on this issue to rail against the Supreme Court's decisions in Lawrence v. Texas and Atkins v. Virginia.
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Jerry Nadler
Democratic · New York

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Nadler reflects on past hearings regarding judicial reliance on foreign law.

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