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Sheldon Whitehouse: “No, I think we have seen this coming for a while. We were slow to figure it out. But I think we have figured it out now.…”

On the recordJune 29, 2022
No, I think we have seen this coming for a while. We were slow to figure it out. But I think we have figured it out now. There’s a lot of pent-up anger and scorn in these new opinions, highly critical of previous Supreme Court justices, highly critical of regulatory officials, really almost cruel, cutting commentary about people that they don’t like.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island
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msnbc.com

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Senator Whitehouse discusses the politicization of the Supreme Court and the anger reflected in its recent opinions.

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