Western states should stay completely away and let him be hoist with his own petard.

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Obama attempted to hoist conservatives for years, advocates of judicial "restraint" and "minimalism" with their own petard.

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"They get hoisted on their own petard, " says Bart Schwartz, former chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney's Office in New York.

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That explosion you heard was MSSB getting hoisted on its own petard an increasingly common mishap in these case brought by former Wall Street employers.

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Imagine, lawyers hoist with their own petard.

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He was hoisted on his own petard.

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