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If our wonderful Linda Greenhouse had been there she would have been one of the groaners! Perhaps the statement was aspirational, Justice Roberts knows well how that up to recent decades the Court has very much hesitated to outrage public sensibility and derived part of its legitimscy from steering a safe course. S. D. O'C's minimalism…
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If our wonderful Linda Greenhouse had been there she would have been one of the groaners! Perhaps the statement was aspirational, Justice Roberts knows well how that up to recent decades the Court has very much hesitated to outrage public sensibility and derived part of its legitimscy from steering a safe course. S. D. O'C's minimalism held the day off when the Court would generate an opinion like Alito's draft would be.
No, he was being willfully obtuse. As if he wasn't speaking to a bunch of people who knew better.