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Earlier today, the Supreme Court issued rulings in four cases.  With less than a month left in the term this leaves 22 cases pending, including Kennedy v. Louisiana and Rothgery v. Gillespie County. Thursday is the next day the Court is scheduled to release opinions, beginning at 10:00 a.m., EDT.  SCOTUS Blog will live blog the announcements of rulings. Edward Lazarus' latest FindLaw column is, "The Supreme Court?s Term So Far:  An Unusual Degree of Agreement, With Liberals Joining 'Conservative' Rulings and Vice-Versa."Although the Supreme Court has yet to decide some of the most important pending cases before it, it is not too soon to say that this has been a surprising term. Based on last term?s record, most prognosticators (including me, I must confess) thought that this term would see another spate of hard-fought 5-4 decisions in which the Court split along its well-established ideological divide, with Justice Anthony Kennedy playing the role of swing justice, delivering victory to one side or the other...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 09, 2008 (boomark / email).