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Once more into the firey branch davidian compound. I mean we lost the third branch of Am'can dmcrcy when RBG died. Now the justices remind me of a highschool student tribunal trying the trends of the moment. Oliver Wendell Holmes guiding idea was experience is the prudent part of jurisprudence. Unlike Scalia deciding if your garage or your car is liable to search by police sans warrant. Common sense! He said, and it was his whole case decides your car is private but your garage isnot. Or vice versa, common sense! Sonya Sotomayor is just asbad . The healthcare mandate had her assent saying it was only helpful noblesse oblige that all should carry insurance. For a constttnl scholar, why do these assents and decents not refer to lived experience? Now it seems to me, and BTW of course i am fine with the court shutting the door against affrmtv action, i have no choice, the teeny tiny activist caste in the country is newly empowered to dramatize what compassion means. Too bad, they are powerless andnot up to the task. The meaning we should take from RBGs strange last 5 years on the court is that she knew she was the last real jurist on the gamefied partisan court. 9 months, 9 months the dems had, 9 months 9 months....

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