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Josh Blackman

"Alice In Wonderland" In SCOTUS

In two dissents this past term, Justices invoked Alice in Wonderland.

Chief Justice Roberts had this gem in FEC v. Cruz. A paragraph on page 7 begins:

These arguments have an Alice in Wonderland air about them, with the Government arguing that appellees would not violate the statute by repaying Cruz, and the appellees arguing that they would. But this case has unfolded in an unusual way. 

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