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Yet another quotation from over the wires that requires little explanation:

“It’s remarkable that the same justices who have argued against judicial activism have intervened here with extreme judicial activism by telling a state’s highest court that it cannot decide a matter of state law … This is very bad for the Supreme Court because their credibility is so diminished, and their moral posture is so diminished, that it could take years to pull back from that.”

Senator Patrick Leahy D-VT, Ranking Member, Senate Judiciary Committee

‘Nuff said.

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