United States | A SCOTUS double feature
The Supreme Court searches for a middle way
Two cases address free speech and state legislatures’ power over elections
|WASHINGTON, DC
HAVING CLEANED away abortion rights, clean-air regulations, the church-state wall and many gun restrictions last June, the justices have taken up two more aspects of society that may need rejigging.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Moore or less”
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