HisArpy
Loose canon extraordinair
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Opinions are like bellybuttons, everyone has one. Appealing to authority on a subject you, personally know nothing about is not very solid rhetorical ground. Any position you want to take on any issue has its share of "experts" supporting that position.
Being able to find an "expert" supporting your position who is advancing an argument that you are not equipped to understand is not a valid rhetorical device. If you cannot explain, in your own words, what it is that "your" so-called expert is asserting, you don't even have entree to debate. Not even in seventh-grade debate are they allowed to argue dueling citations.
You seem to get a lot of your self-worth being an overpaid union hack.
You really should quit discrediting yourself.
I think it's more simply stated than that:
I cited to existing US Supreme Court precedent.
He didn't.
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