The U.S. Supreme Court seemed bent this term on upending observers' expectations. It was as if, after nine years of togetherness -- the longest period of stability in the Court's history -- the justices became restless and decided to rearrange the furniture. Many attributed the term's idiosyncratic trends to the dominance of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, whose centrist approach may help explain why many of the Court's trends seemed to stall.
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