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Pacifist Patriot

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10. This is exactly why I refrain from...

Reply to One_Life_To_Give (Reply #5)

Mon Jan 26, 2015, 02:40 PM

Jan 2015

forming any sort of opinion about a Supreme Court decision from headlines and a few sentences. It's often more complex than a sound bite can convey. I'll be the first to admit my brain just does not function on a "lawyer" setting. I frequently have to have such things explicitly spelled out to me. Slowly.

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