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Monday, June 27, 2005

Commandments

I must be particularly slow and dense, because I can’t comprehend how Justice Bryer could vote the way he did on two cases that went in opposite directions.

Tell me that this:

No exact formula can dictate a resolution in fact-intensive cases such as this,” he read. “… The determinative factor here, however, is that 40 years passed in which the monument’s presence, legally speaking, went unchallenged.

doesn’t translate as “We’ve done it this way for a long time, therefore it must be okay.”

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