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Supreme Court Justices Looked to Personal Views Rather Than Legal Arguments for Hobby Lobby Decision

SUPREME BIAS

The justices would have you believe their choices were limited by prior law, but that is simply false. On issues of race, religion, politics, and technology, the court made decisions that will seriously affect how Americans define themselves as a country and which reflect the justices’ overall value systems much more than their legal perspectives.

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In every constitutional case the Supreme Court decided this term, the Justices had discretion to decide the case in favor of either party and pursuant to a broad or narrow legal rationale.

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