In effect, many people would like to apply the District's legal philosophy on firearms to the entire nation.

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No less disingenuously, liberal senators pretend they are trying to gauge Mr Alito's legal philosophy when they are trying to catch him out on Roe.

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Asked about her legal philosophy, she says she doesn't like labels.

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"Ronald Dworkin was one of the few genuine giants of legal philosophy, combining great learning with profound insight in a way that won't soon be seen again, " said Laurence Tribe, a constitutional-law professor at Harvard Law School.

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Few Americans believe that the justices blindly apply legal principles without being motivated in part by a political ideology or judicial philosophy.

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