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And yet for all this, Senate Democrats have maintained the blue slip tradition that gives Republicans a virtual veto over judicial nominees, and even when Democrats controlled the White House and both chambers of Congress, they did essentially nothing to rein in the SCOTUS, court shopping, and other corruption in the federal judiciary.
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