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Jul 2023
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Conservatives Exert Power in Term's Fina...

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Constitutional law expert Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses the final decisions of the Supreme Court term where the court’s conservative majority threw out President Joe Biden’s student-loan relief plan and ruled that a Christian website designer has a free-speech right to refuse to create wedding pages for same-sex couples. June Grasso hosts.

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