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Patrick Leahy: “They said, and so you then replace the judge? And then when I explained that, no, we don't...”

On the recordApril 19, 2010
They said, and so you then replace the judge? And then when I explained that, no, we don't...
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

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Leahy explains the concept of an independent judiciary to foreign visitors.

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