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On the recordOctober 13, 2020
There's been a steady Roberts Five that has delivered now 80 of these decisions. And the last characteristic of them is that there is an identical Republican donor interest in those cases, and in every single case that donor interest won. It was an 80-0, 5-4 partisan route, ransacking.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island
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Whitehouse discusses the influence of Republican donor interests on Supreme Court decisions.

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