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In the week leading up to the October 2025 Supreme Court term, the impulse among court watchers will again be to do what we always do just before the first pitch on opening day: focus on a handful of high-octane merits cases as the frame for the court’s upcoming session. Splay out the work product as if it speaks for itself; cover the sausage instead of how it gets made. This habitual stentorian announcement of what the high court will be deciding was once merely myopic, ignoring ethics violations and judicial behavior as it did. But as the court becomes the handmaiden of the Trump administration and the brickbat with which to cudgel lower courts and democracy

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