The US Supreme Court’s most consequential term in decades, with blockbuster rulings on abortion, guns, religion and climate change policy, illustrated how its expanded conservative majority is willing to boldly use its power with far-reaching impacts on American society.Democratic President Joe Biden’s appointment of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, sworn in on Thursday to replace retiring fellow liberal Justice Stephen Breyer, does not change the court’s ideological balance, with a six-to-three conservative majority.The majority’s assertiveness could continue in a number of major cases in the court’s next term, which begins in October.
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