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Sonia Sotomayor: The sponsors of this bill, the House bill in Mississippi, said, we`re doing it because we have new justices.

On the recordNovember 30, 2021
The sponsors of this bill, the House bill in Mississippi, said, we`re doing it because we have new justices.
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Sonia Sotomayor
New York
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msnbc.com

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Sotomayor highlights that the new justices on the Supreme Court are influencing the reversal of Roe v. Wade.

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