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Sam Levine

Next up: voting rights, as US supreme court set to tear up more protections

A police officer stands outside the supreme court in Washington last month.
A police officer stands outside the supreme court in Washington. ‘This really is the ‘Yolo’ [you only live once] court,’ said law professor Leah Litman. Photograph: Michael Reynolds/EPA

The final days of the US supreme court’s term offered a clear look at the way its new 6-3 conservative majority is bluntly using its power to reshape American life, but its next term is also set to hear cases that could prove equally, or even more, consequential.

“This really is the ‘Yolo’ [you only live once] court,” said Leah Litman, a law professor at the University of Michigan who closely follows the court. “I don’t think people fathom just how much more they will do.”

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