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Legal experts rip apart Alito’s 'deranged' argument in birthright citizenship case
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One of the examples that legal analysts took issue with in the arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday came from Justice Samuel Alito. "Justice [Antonin] Scalia had an example that dealt with this situation. He imagined an old theft statute that was enacted well before anybody conceived of a microwave oven, and then afterwards (sic) someone is…