FW: Did the dissent in the health care case misuse an Alexander Hamilton quote?

[Baker, John]

Most Supreme Court opinions are actually drafted by law clerks.  These are young lawyers who typically have been out of law school for only a year or two (during which time they would have clerked for judges at lower courts) and spend only one year clerking for a Supreme Court Justice.  I wonder if a dissident clerk deliberately included in this land mine in the dissent.


John Baker



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Subject: Re: FW: Did the dissent in the health care case misuse an Alexander Hamilton quote?

At 7/6/2012 04:36 PM, Shapiro, Fred wrote:
>Aficionados of quotation misuse may enjoy this blog posting:
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>http://sbmblog.typepad.com/sbm-blog/2012/07/did-the-health-care-dissenters-misuse-a-federalist-quotation.html
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>Fred
>Shapiro<http://sbmblog.typepad.com/sbm-blog/2012/07/did-the-health-care-dissenters-misuse-a-federalist-quotation.html>
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And these are the judges who claim to be the only correct
interpreters of "original intent"!  They don't even understand the
18th century's rhetorical use of sarcasm.

Joel

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