and --
sweet god damn, sometimes just when you think the place has leaned so far to the right it might just fall the hell down, something happens to reaffirm your faith.
6-3. i wonder who the third one was. [eta: rehnquist. duh. wonder why i always forget about him ...]
heh. in my head, just now, scalia went "psst ... tony ... that's not what we mean when we say do the Right Thing, dude." :-D
eta again:
kennedy, for the majority
o'connor, concurring
scalia, with rehnquist and thomas, dissenting
6-3. i wonder who the third one was. [eta: rehnquist. duh. wonder why i always forget about him ...]
heh. in my head, just now, scalia went "psst ... tony ... that's not what we mean when we say do the Right Thing, dude." :-D
eta again:
kennedy, for the majority
o'connor, concurring
scalia, with rehnquist and thomas, dissenting

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