Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?

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A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.

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Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers?

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A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement.

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A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.

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You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out.

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What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean?

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In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.

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There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.

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The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for often will.

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