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Patrick Leahy: “No one, including the President, has the right to require ideological purity from a member of the Supreme Court.”

On the recordMay 7, 2009
No one, including the President, has the right to require ideological purity from a member of the Supreme Court.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

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Leahy argues against demanding ideological conformity from Supreme Court nominees.

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