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On the recordDecember 13, 2011
Efforts to attack that independence, as exhibited in H.R. 973, the bill introduced by our colleague from Florida, Ms. Adams, that would ban courts from 'deciding any issue on the authority of foreign law,' should trouble all of us.
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Jerry Nadler
Democratic · New York

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Nadler criticizes H.R. 973 for undermining judicial independence.

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