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Derrick Van Orden: “The Supreme Court case has been quoted over and over and…”

Featuring: Derrick Van Orden, Republican | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 3

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And by definition, when we're splitting ourselves up into these small groups, we are not being uniform. It's literally the definition of the word. So The Supreme Court case has been quoted over and over and over again, didn't address the service academies specifically. did not address them, because there's distinct national security issues of that they put it aside. So even that is disingenuous by saying that. (00:48–00:56)

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