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The Supreme Court
Clip: Season 4 | 5m 19s
Tim O’Brien looks ahead at Gore, Bush, and the future of the Supreme Court.
One of the greatest powers a president has is appointing new justices to the Supreme Court. In the next few years, the Court is expected to rule on a variety of closely-disputed and controversial issues, many of them of special interest to religious communities: school prayer, for instance, and other church-state questions.
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Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly
The Supreme Court
Clip: Season 4 | 5m 19s
One of the greatest powers a president has is appointing new justices to the Supreme Court. In the next few years, the Court is expected to rule on a variety of closely-disputed and controversial issues, many of them of special interest to religious communities: school prayer, for instance, and other church-state questions.
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