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Feb 2024
38m 55s

Mayorkas Impeachment & Oldest Judge Lose...

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Frank Bowman, a professor at the University of Missouri Law School, discusses the impeachment of the Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. Arthur Hellman, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh Law School, discusses 96-year-old Judge Pauline Newman’s failed efforts to get reinstated. June Grasso hosts.

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