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Since yesterday's post about Justice Breyer's intriguing remarks in the Gonzalez v. Raich oral argument is dated April 1, I felt it important to clarify: THAT WAS NOT AN APRIL FOOL'S JOKE! It really happened. Checkthe transcript and scroll down to page 30.

To be sure, sometimes transcripts are garbled by the stenographer. But I thought the rest of the transcript looked very clear and ungarbled. Plus, I'm guessing the U.S. Supreme Court has a pretty darned good stenographer. Plus, the transcript is from the U.S. Supreme Court's own website.

At some point, we can hope that Oyez.org will post the streaming audio of the argument, and we can hear it for ourselves.

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