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News Analysis - Roberts Shifts Court to Right, With Help From Kennedy

The Page by Mark Halperin found this 6/30/2009 on nytimes.com

WASHINGTON — Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. emerged as a canny strategist at the Supreme Court this term, laying the groundwork for bold changes that could take the court to the right even as the recent elections moved the nation to the left. The court took mainly incremental steps in major ...