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On the recordSeptember 21, 2020
the Federalist Society, which was founded on, quote, ``principles that the State exists to preserve freedom, that the separation of governmental powers is central to our Constitution, and that it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be.''
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Steve Chabot
Republican · Ohio

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Chabot discusses the founding principles of the Federalist Society.

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