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On the recordMay 7, 2009
I am not asking you how you would decide the case, but wouldn't you agree that the Supreme Court should have taken that kind of a major conflict on separation of powers?
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Arlen Specter
Democratic · Pennsylvania

Editor's note · Context

Specter questions Sotomayor on the Court's failure to address a significant separation of powers issue.

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