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Patrick Leahy: “I said, yes, it happens often, and they said, and is it true that sometimes the government loses?”

On the recordApril 19, 2010
I said, yes, it happens often, and they said, and is it true that sometimes the government loses?
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Leahy recounts a conversation about the independence of the judiciary in the U.S.

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