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On the recordMarch 20, 2022
I hope you will remember all of this because it seems to me that the Court has been on something of a campaign to deprecate and diminish the civil jury.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse criticizes the Supreme Court's treatment of civil juries.

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