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None, to an Alito-minded person. The fourteenth amendment has always been deeply hated by the revanchist trog conservatives except when deployed to protect corporations and other combinations of entrenched power, so the task of that sort of Jurist is to come up with a way to have the language without its meaning. There is that pesky last clause of the sixth amendment clause guaranteeing the right "to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense". But that is easily dismissed, since the language says nothing about anyone actually having to make that assistance AVAILABLE-- I have the right in theory to have green eggs and ham --if I can get them-- but no right to have them if no one agrees to sell or give them to me.

Alito and his boys have a whole list of rulings to clear away. Such as all the jurisprudence that slowly, slowly, slowly negated Williams v Missisppi. Williams v Missisippi -- now there's a ruling of the sort that today's majority has in mind. When we get back to there, we'll finally have pure Federalism the way the Founders (and God, and his particular friend Alito) intended.

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