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The US Supreme Court is back in business
Justice Neil Gorsuch has the US Supreme Court at full strength after more than a year with just eight members: four conservatives and four tending liberal. After avoiding important cases that might have produced tie votes, the Court is expected to come up with some blockbuster decisions in its next term.
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readJustice Neil Gorsuch has the US Supreme Court at full strength after more than a year with just eight members: four conservatives and four tending liberal. After avoiding important cases that might have produced tie votes, the Court is expected to come up with some blockbuster decisions in its next term. Partisan gerrymandering, gay rights, free speech, religion and immigration are all on the docket… after the court takes three months off. Is Gorsuch even more to the right than Antonin Scalia, the man he replaced? And…how come the court gets such a long vacation?
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Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Yael Even Or
Producer, 'Press Play'
Devan Schwartz
Producer
Andrea Brody
Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast
Kimberly Robinson
Bloomberg BNA
Adam Winkler
professor of law at UCLA, and author of "Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America"
Ilya Shapiro
Cato Institute
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2 of 3Supreme Court ends a quiet term, looks ahead to a blockbuster one- 1:26Cyberattacks spread global chaos
- 7:39The US Supreme Court is back in businessYou’re reading this
- 41:37Who's lying? The battle over 'fake news'