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Stevens is on the legal front lines

Source: United Press International
Washington : DC : USA | about 1 month ago  
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Justice John Paul Stevens ' 34 years on the U.S. Supreme Court have been anything but typical -- seen as the leader of the court's four-member liberal bloc, Stevens described himself in 2007 as a "conservative" -- but he has been in the forefront for most of the major issues of...
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