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Justice Kennedy as Yoda

By Dan Markel, Ethan Leib, Rick Garnett, Matt Bodie, Paul Horwitz , Steve Vladeck, and Orly Lobel

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I'll leave it to Steve and others to do the interpretation-and-translation heavy lifting of today's decision in Boumediene.  My question is, what to make of this sentence from Justice Kennedy's opinion:

Remote in time it may be; irrelevant to the present it is not.

Did the Justice run his draft though this Yoda-speak generator?

Full post as published by Prawfs on June 12, 2008 (boomark / email).

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