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Johonny

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16. Pretty much

Reply to Spider Jerusalem (Reply #11)

Wed Jun 15, 2016, 05:28 PM

Jun 2016

Supreme Court justices used to know this then Scalia and the fake originalists created a "new" meaning out of thin air. Now what is common knowledge as to its meaning is something that is basically false.

But we don't have to pretend to appease them.

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