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Argle-Bargling Jiggery-Pokery: Scalia's Greatest Hits

As the Supreme Court justice himself once put it, “Words have meaning … And their meaning doesn’t change.”
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This week, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia added some more words to an already lengthy list of obscurities he's put into his legal opinions. But from jiggery-pokery to argle-bargle to Kulturkampf, don't ever make the mistake of thinking Scalia is writing gibberish.

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