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Summer Lee: Those orders seem to be patently illegal. I don't know who has authority to keep you out of something that is called a…

On the recordSeptember 5, 2019
Those orders seem to be patently illegal. I don't know who has authority to keep you out of something that is called a court, a public court.
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Summer Lee
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Sheila Jackson Lee questions the legality of orders barring access to a public court.

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