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Expert pulls back curtain on 'where Republicans go to do what voters reject’

What happened

The venue Elie Mystal identifies as “where Republicans go to do what voters reject” is the Supreme Court. AlterNet reports that Mystal, writing in The Nation on Monday, argued that Republican-aligned litigants use the Court to pursue outcomes they could not secure through elections, including challenges involving the National Voter Registration Act, Title IX, gun restrictions, protections for runaways, and fossil-fuel regulation.

Those cases had not been decided in the reporting supplied. Mystal was forecasting how the Court’s conservative majority would rule during the coming…

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