Verrilli, Jr. addressed the Court, he too faced a barrage of hypothetical questions, often asked in several variations by multiple justices.

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Many executives and politicians with whom I have worked over the years had previously spent hours and hours brainstorming dozens, even hundreds, of complex, hypothetical questions.

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The segment came after Fox News host Bret Baier tried repeatedly to trip up congressman Paul with hypothetical questions on intelligence of a fully nuclear Iran.

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The court, in a unanimous opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts, used the case to reaffirm a core doctrine: Courts are for deciding real cases over real injuries, not hypothetical questions best left to the legislature.

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The reports were published in searchable form on several news websites, including WSJ.com, and allowed teachers and parents to consider the real-life implications of policy questions that until now had only been hypothetical.

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So when you were answering the questions before, it's not just a hypothetical or speculation.

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