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President Barack Obama has appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court people who don’t entirely share his taste for aggressive statism. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI, Getty-AFP Photo / March 21, 2011) Barack Obama, the law professor who railed against the Bush administra

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