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The Supreme Court’s laugh track
Kimberly Atkins//February 3, 2012//
When retired Justice Sandra Day O鈥機onnor cracks political jokes, people laugh.
That was the case last weekend at an exclusive black-tie gathering of Washington鈥檚 elite when O鈥機onnor drew the biggest laugh of the night, according to attendees.
At the Alfalfa Club dinner, which drew President Barack Obama, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. and Justice Anthony Kennedy among others, O鈥機onnor quipped about GOP presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, noting: 鈥渙ne is a practicing polygamist, and he鈥檚 not even the Mormon,鈥� the .
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