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Am I the only one who notices how absurd this thread is getting?
First, there is some problem about the quotation. Some attribute it to one Justice (Brandeis) and some to another (Frankfurter). Nobody can point to its source. Even so, some people take it Very literally.
We have here a quotation from one and only one Supreme Court Justice, whichever he was. Not a majority opinion. Maybe not even a dissenting opinion. Maybe not even from a court case.
Some of the comments seem to think that a Supreme Court Justice can never use a figure of speech. That if Brandeis or Frankfurter (or another Justice) had used the expression "the ends of the earth", this was somehow an official, legally binding, authority that the earth was flat!
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