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Patrick Leahy: “I do not think that means they can put the Court in a Coliseum if the Court felt that it adversely impacted the…”

On the recordDecember 5, 2011
I do not think that means they can put the Court in a Coliseum if the Court felt that it adversely impacted the integrity of its decisionmaking.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

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Leahy discusses the limits of Congress's power over the Supreme Court's location.

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