“I was fortunate as a young man to be invited to staff meetings that featured some of the most influential conservative judicial minds of the time,” McConnell said. “Robert Bork was there. He was the solicitor general. Larry Silberman was there. He was the deputy attorney general. And everyone in the department agreed on two things: one, Antonin Scalia was the funniest lawyer on the staff, and two, he was the brightest.”

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