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Summary of the US Supreme Court term past<\/a>, with an eye toward upcoming changes. Which basically goes to confirm that nobody can guess how anyone is likely to vote on anything, especially if simple “conservative” or “liberal” labels are slapped on. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary of the US Supreme Court term past, with an eye toward upcoming changes. 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