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Radley Balko | 1.15.2009 12:29 PM

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"I certainly respect the Constitution, but we have some issues that are much bigger than the Constitution."

That's the "worst mayor in America," Jackson, Mississippi's Frank Melton. Guess what issue he's talking about, then click through to see if you were right.

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Radley Balko is a journalist at The Washington Post.

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