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Elena Kagan

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Its fine if the law bans books because government won't really enforce it.
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Widely reported as having been said by Kagan during the Supreme Court oral argument in the Citizens United case in September, 2009; however, this quote does not appear in the actual transcript of the oral argument.

 
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