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On the recordOctober 11, 2020
This Supreme Court nominee has signaled in the judicial equal of all caps that she believes the Affordable Care Act must go and that the president -- precedent protecting the ACA doesn't matter. The big secretive influences behind this unseemly rush see this nominee as a judicial torpedo. They are firing at the ACA.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island
Source
msnbc.com

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Sheldon Whitehouse warns that the Supreme Court nominee threatens the Affordable Care Act.

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