it’s the supreme court stupid

Supreme Court Faces Another High Profile Term

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From WashingtonPost: The Supreme Court begins a new term Monday with the most important civil rights agenda in years on the horizon and amid intensified scrutiny of the relationship between Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and his fellow conservatives. … The justices will consider the continued viability of affirmative…

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Charts: The Supreme Court’s Rightward Shift

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From Mother Jones: By several measures, the court headed by Chief Justice John Roberts is the most conservative since the early 1970s, when Richard Nixon named Warren Burger to replace the famously liberal Earl Warren. Not only is its most conservative member (Clarence Thomas) nearly as conservative as the Burger…

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