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What Scalia’s ‘Jiggery-Pokery’ Means

Old Man Yells at Cloud

In his dissenting rant against Thursday’s Burwell decision, Justice Scalia called the whole thing ‘jiggery-pokery.’ Here’s what that particularly colorful turn-of-phrase actually means.

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