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4 days agoJustice Sotomayor Lets Stephen Colbert Say What She Can't - Above the Law
To a lawyer, Sotomayor's dissent conveyed the horror of watching the majority stitch together a constitutional fraud from duct tape and white panic. It concludes with "I dissent." Normal people wouldn't bat an eye, but any dissent that leaves out the customary "respectfully" slaps the lawyerly reader like Will Smith at the Oscars. Within the genteel confines of the Supreme Court, that's a scorching burn. Outside of it, however, it passes without much notice.
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