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Mark Pocan: “During the Bush and Obama solicitor general times, emergency…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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And if you go back in history, During the Bush and Obama solicitor general times, emergency relief was only done 18 times combined over 16 years. Right. So this is a huge change in how this, I'm going to use shadow docket because I'm a journalism major. I was taught to talk at eighth grade level. (00:00–00:12)

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Asserts that emergency relief was used 18 times over 16 years during the Bush and Obama administrations.

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