“The Court must be living in another world. Day by day, case by case, it is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.”
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Board of County Commissioners, Wabaunsee County, Kansas, v. Umbehr, 518 U.S. 668, No. 94-1654 (1996, dissenting); decided June 28, 1996.
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