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Only about a third of Americans can identify the three branches. Another third can only name one branch of government. Ten percent thinks Judy Sheindlin serves on the United States Supreme Court. Judge Judy! I’ve got great respect for her, but she is not one of my colleagues.
— Justice Neil Gorsuch, lamenting the fact that the American public does not understand the structure of government and its institutions in an interview with the Washington Post.
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