It's an extraordinary act, I think, to withdraw jurisdiction from this court in a pending case.
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I do not know of any case where we have impugned a state supreme court the way you are doing in this case. I mean, in case after case, we have said we owe the highest respect to what the ... state supreme court says is the state's law,
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