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Mike Lee: “And it's for that very reason that the Supreme Court has tended, over the course of the last century, to lean more…”

On the recordJuly 22, 2013
And it's for that very reason that the Supreme Court has tended, over the course of the last century, to lean more toward the Rule of Reason and away from per se rules of invalidity and also from presumptions of illegality.
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Mike Lee
Republican · Utah

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Senator Lee discusses the Supreme Court's preference for the Rule of Reason in legal analysis.

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