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Conservative Supreme Court justices disagree about how to read the law

  • Written by Jeb Barnes, Professor of Political Science, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
imageThe current Supreme Court has a 6-3 conservative majority.Fred Schilling, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States

With a 6-3 majority, conservative justices on the Supreme Court may appear poised to hand down decisions that the Republican presidents who appointed them would applaud.

As a political scientist who has published several...

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