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The Supreme Court March To The Right: Fast And Furious, Or Incremental?

Abortion, guns, gay rights, separation of church and state, immigration, and potentially questions related to impeachment could be on the table set for this Supreme Court term, which starts on Monday.

The Supreme Court may be anxious to portray itself as an apolitical institution. But this term, political questions writ large are knocking at the high court door.

The upcoming term will almost surely be a march to the right on almost every issue that is a flash point in American society. Among them: abortion, guns, gay rights, the separation of church and state, immigration and presidential power.

Also headed to the court are cases testing the power of Congress to get information from the executive branch and elsewhere, information that is relevant to congressional oversight and potentially, to impeachment.

Clearly, President Trump had something like that in mind when he said

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