Spencer Cox: “The chief justice of the Supreme Court is appointed by the…”

“And one of those checks at the federal level, which is why I said I would support it because we are based on the federal system, is one of those checks, is that The chief justice of the Supreme Court is appointed by the president of the United States. And so this does give another two branches of government an opportunity to weigh in and let the independent branch know how they're seeing things.” (32:58–33:04)

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