Jean Podrasky, 49, a San Francisco accountant, attended oral argument on the same-sex marriage cases as a guest of Roberts, a first cousin whose mother is Podrasky's godmother.
Less civil arguments on the same topic were simultaneously held outside the Court, on the airwaves, and across the punditocracy.
The very fact that we're suddenly back to the same old boring arguments on the same old boring stuff is a pretty good sign that everyone is actually pretty quietly happy with the way Syria is working out.
If an argument is created from data in EMAGE, there is no point in creating an argument based on the same data in GXD.
This argument centers on the same idea as that espoused by Trump on Monday morning: Opposition to his presidency is phony.
It is just a safety policy to make sure all conversations are sensible and no offense or arguments go on, as the same that no negative emotions are shown through speech.
Each party is down in its trench, lobbing the same old arguments, relying on the same old coalitions.
Instead I want to point out the way in which these arguments take on the same dynamics as more familiar touchy topics, from climate change, to immigration, to religious belief.
What also blew my mind, was that the FTC's lead economist, Carl Shapiro, was the same person criticized by Judge Leon in the TWC-AT&T merger trial for once again making overly theoretical arguments based on the same flawed theory.
The rest of the correctness argument is based on the same principles as the crash-stop case and we thus omit it.
But while much of the argument is the same, the response on the part of the US government may well be different.
