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On the recordJuly 9, 2013
I detect a strain in certain current judicial philosophies of trying to deny, minimize, inhibit, cripple the jury system.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse comments on threats to the jury system from judicial philosophies.

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