If You Can't Stand the Forms, Get Out of the Bureaucracy

Before the President could nominate Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court, she had to be vetted by his staff. TIME obtained the questionaire the Administration had used before in the vetting process; it consists of 65 exhaustive, multi-part questions about family, health, taxes and finances going back decades, including the following:

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