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[Some interest groups and Senate Democrats] would like nothing more than for you to take a litmus test, ... I agree that this committee needs answers but only to proper questions. … You are not campaigning for elective office. The question that needs to be answered is how you view the role of unelected judges in a representative democracy.

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