They have this ongoing and infinitely malleable joust with him that is covered in layers of ironic discourse and sarcasm. That's all it is.
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![In a passage that sounds hauntingly familiar to
readers of Tennessee's brief, Virginia argued in Loving
that, should this Court intervene, it would find itself in a
"bog of conflicting scientific opinion upon the effects of in-
terracial marriage, and the desirability of preventing such
alliances, from the physical , biological, genetic, anthropo-
logical, cultural, psychological, and sociological point of
view." Brieffor Appellee in Loving v. Virginia, O. T. 1966,
No. 395, p . 7. "In such a situation,” Virginia continued, “it
is the exclusive province of the Legislature of each State to
make the determination for its citizens as to the desirability
of a policy of permitting or preventing such [ interracial] al-
liances a province which the judiciary may not constitu-
tionally invade." Id., at 7-8.
This Court, famously, rejected the States' invitation in
Loving to "defer to the wisdom of the state legislature"
based on assertions that "the scientific evidence is substan-](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2dhsiwexfunczcdhfhfwux4l/bafkreianlsdh6snhd66u5sp4qlsljyovzkvicklpwx4twjheogjerqq7re)
