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Justice Antonin Scalia and the presidential race

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is interviewed by

Photo credit: AP | Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is interviewed by The Associated Press at the Supreme Court in Washington. (July 26, 2012)

Dan Janison

Melville. N.Y. Tuesday January 26, 2010. Daniel Janison, Dan Janison

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Imagine if one of the U.S. Supreme Court's Democratic-appointed, liberal-bloc judges said flatly in an interview -- just after the Colorado theater massacre -- that the Second Amendment leaves room for U.S. lawmakers to regulate guns.

Gun-control groups might applaud the jurist's independent willingness to live in the real world and stand up, if only to say assault-weapons curbs "will have...

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