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On the recordMarch 1, 2011
I think the Supreme Court has been absolutely clear in this particular area, the welfare rights area, that there is that danger that judges, unelected and unaccountable, based on their own conceptions of justice might try to write that into the law.
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Mike Lee
Republican · Utah

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Judges should not impose personal moral theories on the law.

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