In Queens, a Scripted Judicial Convention, Briefly Derailed
"I knew that those five he said 'pay attention to' were the ones they were going to nominate."
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“We’ve been hearing lavish dinners, four-hour sessions. Stop it, please. Because the next thing you’re going to hear in the news is the Brooklyn Democratic Party is ‘corrupt, corrupt, corrupt.'”
"I knew that those five he said 'pay attention to' were the ones they were going to nominate."
"It was this weird horror of: 'Wait, our judicial system is being decided by these people that I don't know, who aren't lawyers, who are sitting at a lobster house?'"
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