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"The fact is, we are a nine-member court that sits on cases."
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"When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it."
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"The fact is, we are a nine-member court that sits on cases."
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