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The justices, standing from left, Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen G. Breyer, Samuel A. Alito Jr., and Elena Kagan. Seated from left, Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., Anthony M. Kennedy and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is usually the most remote and mysterious branch of American government. Not last week.
Over three days of intense arguments on the future of President Obama’shealth care law, the public got a vivid glimpse of an institution at once immensely powerful and intensely human, one packed with brainy, funny and assertive justices prepared to confront and decide the most urgent issues of the day.
“It seemed that they were at an intellectual feast,”
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