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Now that the US Supreme Court has become a critical and controversial part of the battle for the presidency, the high court is in danger of losing its traditional role as impartial arbiter of constitutional disagreements, analysts say... In previous major cases, the court has been politically inoculated by unanimity. In the 1954 decision Brown v. Board of Education, outlawing school segregation, the court spoke with one voice. Similarly, in the 1974 decision ordering former president Nixon to release damning audiotapes was unanimous, noted Philip Klinkner, a law professor at Hamilton College in upstate New York.

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