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I find the speech in this case patently offensive, hateful, and insulting. The Court should not, however, gloss over three decades of jurisprudence and the centrality of First Amendment freedoms in our lives because it is confronted with speech it does not like.

— Sonia Sotomayor

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Puerto Rico will not only survive this. It will bloom once again.

Look at another person and understand no matter how much you disagree with them… if you look, you will find good in them.

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No matter how you look at it, the majority’s official-acts immunity is utterly indefensible.

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I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government.

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