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A look at the major cases rounding out the year and trends in the new Roberts court. Conservatives prevailed this week in cases on campaign finance reform, student speech, and taxpayer challenges to government programs. School desegregation policy is at issue in a case to be decided Thursday.
Joan Biskupic, reporter, "USA Today;" author, "Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice;" now working on a biography about Justice Antonin Scalia.
Michael A. Carvin, attorney in private practice; former deputy assistant attorney general in the Reagan Administration
Jonathan Turley, professor of public interest law at George Washington University Law School
Fans know Jon Katz as the former suburbanite who bought a farm in upstate New York to provide a better life for his beloved Border Collies. He and his wife, journalist Paula Span, update us on life at Bedlam Farm, which now includes dogs, sheep, steers and cow, donkeys, a barn cat, a rooster and three hens.
Jon Katz, author of six novels and ten works of nonfiction, he writes columns about dogs and rural life for "Slate" and cohosts an award-winning show, "Dog Talk," on Northeast Public Radio.
Paula Span, former longtime Washington Post reporter based in New York. She teaches journalism at Columbia University and is at work on a non-fiction book about adult children with aging parents.
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