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Why do we pretend Supreme Court justices are anything but political officials?

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imageFlags fly at half mast at the Supreme Court days after Justice Antonin Scalia's death.taedc/flickr, CC BY-SA

The late Justice Antonin Scalia believed that the federal Constitution allows states to ban abortion, to prohibit consensual sex between two adults in the privacy of their home as well as same-sex marriage, to keep a prestigious state-funded...

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