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This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Wednesday, December 27th, 2017.

I'm Gable Brown. It's a matter of dispute exactly when the bitter ideological and

often partisan fights over judicial

nominations started but according to Cato's Ilia Shapiro they're not going

anywhere and they may get more contentious we spoke last week.

Was there ever a get more contentious. We spoke last week.

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