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'Revolutionary' high court term on abortion, guns and more
https://apnews.com/article/abortion-voting-rights-ketanji-brown-jackson-us-supreme-court-government-and-politics-98bcef2f04c056f2c8e5a13e7b5b7204‘Revolutionary’ high court term on abortion, guns and more
By MARK SHERMAN
WASHINGTON (AP) — Abortion, guns and religion — a major change in the law in any one of these areas would have made for a fateful Supreme Court term. In its first full term together, the court’s conservative majority ruled in all three and issued other significant decisions limiting the government’s regulatory powers.
And it has signaled no plans to slow down.
With former President Donald Trump’s appointees in their 50s, the six-justice conservative majority seems poised to keep control of the court for years to come, if not decades.
“This has been a revolutionary term in so many respects,” said Tara Leigh Grove, a law professor at the University of Texas. “The court has massively changed constitutional law in really big ways.”
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