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Their stridently held belief that tax cuts produce more revenue, a notion dating from the late 1970s, should have been a tipoff: By that reasoning, reducing taxes to zero should produce infinite revenue.

The brothers’ lawyers, led by Mark Geragos and Cliff Gardner, paint Hochman’s action as motivated by politics, not legal reasoning, as case law requires.

After the BBC questioned his reasoning - citing opposition from numerous Somali Islamic scholars - Sheikh Mahmoud maintained that he would not abandon the marriage.

“There’s no reasoning. There’s no excuse,” she said of Trump’s plan to shut down the Department of Education.

Better Sino-American relations, the reasoning went, might be a way to counter the rise of the Soviet Union.