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Volaris

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8. He's stating that the parrallel is that The Legislature can basically
Tue Dec 11, 2012, 11:36 AM
Dec 2012

ban whatever the hell it wants to, until a Court decides that enforcing that ban is unconstitutional, and tells said Legislature to go fuck itself.
I'm not saying it's a great argument, but Scalia CAN be pretty damn good at splitting hairs when he wants to be, his problem is that he doesn't seem to see a lot of difference between using a scalpel and a sledghammer. His defense of this short-sightedness is that LEGALLY, it doesn't make a damn bit of difference which gets used... split is split, and it matters NOT how the splitting actually got done.

Not saying I agree, just saying.

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