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Dumbledore and Originalism

By The Daily Dish
Oct 23 2007, 3:45 AM ET

Only a lawyer could write a sentence like this:

In the balance of this column, I will explain why James Madison is no more of an authority on the meaning of the U.S. Constitution, than J.K. Rowling is on Dumbledore's sexual orientation.

More signs of legal desperation here:

As someone whose middle name begins with "Vlad," I may be blogging in the future about my own interests in vampires and the law -- what Buffy has to do with property law and the law and economics insights of Angel.

Beats torts, I guess.



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