On the recordMarch 19, 2017
As much as 40 percent of the Federal judiciary has gone to these special-interest-funded training sessions described by one writer as a 'cross between Maoist cultural re-education camps and Club Med.'
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Whitehouse criticizes special-interest training for judges, likening it to re-education camps.
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