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Justice Gorsuch manages to pack a lot of #gorsuchstyle into tonight's one-paragraph dissent. He shows personality and verve in his potshot at Vegas and hedonism and in the final sentence (the Caesars Palace/ Calvary Chapel quip brilliantly distills all three dissents). 1/
Yet even in just a single paragraph he can't resist overexplaining. "The large numbers are fine" point is redundant, and it sucks the life out of the compelling contrast between the huddling craps and roulette players and the banned religious services. "Show, don't tell." 2/
And yes, even in this lone paragraph you can see his idiosyncratic syntax. Not sure exactly what he was going for after the dash, but I think he means something like "no matter HOW LARGE the building, HOW DISTANT the individuals, or HOW PERVASIVE the masks. 3/
My last point is more of a question. Would the image be even more compelling if he contrasted the hordes of huddling gamblers with the would-be parishioners banned from churches vs. contrasting the gamblers with the churches/synagogues/mosques themselves? 4/
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