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Mr. Liptak, a lawyer, joined The Times’s news staff in 2002

He has served as the chairman of the New York City Bar Association’s communications and media law

He covered the Supreme Court nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito; the investigation into the disclosure of the identity of Valerie Wilson, an undercover C.I.A. operative

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have masked what may be the most significant and lasting development.

Texas does nothing to change what it already does and there is this significant development? This is truly idiotic. It figures he's a secular humanist lawyer. Not a very good writer either (IMHO).