A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.
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Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism.
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Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century.
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So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.
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The ""takings"" clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.
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In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy.
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If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice.
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He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice.
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A Supreme Court decision that concessions of this sort were unconstitutional would have taken them off the table and actually increased the effective sovereignty of elected officials.
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The case decided on Thursday, though, seemed promising to takings fans because it wasn't about compensation. It was about the requirement that any government taking must have a ""public purpose.""
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