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On the recordOctober 6, 2013
You expect us to believe that judicial independence is the reason that Judge Daugherty had a 99.7 percent approval rate? Is that judicial independence or is it fraud?
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Thomas Coburn
Republican · Oklahoma

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Senator Coburn questions the legitimacy of the judge's approval rate.

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