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Analyzing the influential network behind Supreme Court appointments, focusing on key accomplice C. Boyden Gray and his background.
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Well, one of the people that most people don't know about is Seabroiden Gray. And he was the White House counsel for George Herbert Walker Bush. He's the person who helped get Clarence Thomas installed on the court.
And by the time John Roberts was nominated to the DC Circuit and then the Supreme Court, Gray was basically orchestrating an outside
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An analysis of the political calculations and expectations surrounding John Roberts' Supreme Court nomination and confirmation.
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So am I getting
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