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Concluding a Discussion of the Supreme Court's Term: No One is Leaving

One big piece of news about the end of the Supreme Court's term is that it came without an announcement of anyone's retirement. There is no vacancy, thus we do not face the prospect of any further Trump effort to fill another seat through the remainder of his term. That's a good thing. As to the cases, I'd like to have something to say here about five as yet unmentioned. All of them important. Abortion Rights I've mentioned before a decision this term that may have helped persuade the evangelical Christian core of the Trump coalition that he isn't delivering for them: the reading of the civil rights act so as to protect gay employees from firings.  Here we reach another decision that might contribute to that disenchantment. And everything that weakens the Orange Dynast politically is at this moment a good thing. Abortion rights survive. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/18-1323_c07d.pdf The case this session was June Medical Services v...