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Russ Feingold: “What I fear is, what they see is a what looks like a perfectly normal hearing. It looks like one, but it's not. It's…”

On the recordOctober 12, 2020
What I fear is, what they see is a what looks like a perfectly normal hearing. It looks like one, but it's not. It's based on a completely illicit a power grab to jam through a nominee right in the middle of an election at a time that has never been done this late.
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Russ Feingold
Democratic · Wisconsin
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msnbc.com

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Feingold expresses concern that the Supreme Court nomination hearing appears normal but is actually an illegitimate power grab.

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