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Dahlia Lithwick on the Supreme Court Term

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"It Isn't Tilting in the Same Old Ways," is the title of Dahlia Lithwick's Washington Post commentary of the Supreme Court's term. Here are snippets from this must-read. With just two weeks left in the Supreme Court's term, everything we thought we knew about the Roberts court seems wrong. And:Court watchers have stood dumbfounded all spring as the high court rejected and renounced the 5 to 4 conservative-liberal splits that seemed to have calcified after last term's bitter divisions. The end of June 2007 saw a full third of the court's cases decided by a 5 to 4 margin; as of this writing, the court has decided just four cases that way this year. At this point last year, Kennedy had cast his vote with the prevailing five justices every single time...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 16, 2008 (boomark / email).