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Arlen Specter: “Isn't what the Supreme Court has done here in the face of contravening that express legislation engaging in, as…”

On the recordDecember 1, 2009
Isn't what the Supreme Court has done here in the face of contravening that express legislation engaging in, as Professor Burbank says, 'judicial lawmaking'?
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Arlen Specter
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Specter questions the Supreme Court's actions regarding civil rules and legislation.

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