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Significance
The decision to hold a hearing on this issue, rather than simply issue a decision, reflects a degree of concern about perceptions of the Court’s legitimacy following the transfer of the country’s currently polarised politics onto the Court through recent appointments.
Impacts
The conservative majority of the Supreme Court is so dominant that no liberal decisions are likely in the foreseeable future.
Chief Justice Roberts will try on occasion to moderate the Court’s conservative decision-making but mostly without effect.
The recent report from President Joe Biden’s commission on the Supreme Court will prove ineffectual.
Upcoming cases will provoke a political backlash among voters and make Court reform a central preoccupation for some Democrats.
Keywords:
United States,
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politics,
social,
constitution,
government,
judicial,
reform,
regulation
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