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Counsel, sharpen your legal arguments. The Supreme Court returns for its new term this week, and it's expected to be a corker. This will be the court's first full term with Samuel Alito in Sandra Day O'Connor's old seat. And on the docket are a raft of high-profile cases on hot-button issues that should give the best indication yet of the decision-making dynamics and working style of the John Roberts era. Here's a look at what to expect...
...polls, it seemed politics was destined to be just another of his expensive hobbies. But since Foley dropped out of the race last Friday - felled by the growing scandal over inappropriate e-mails he sent to young congressional pages - Mahoney suddenly appears to have all but won a seat that had come to look like a G.O.P. birthright. "I'm going to work to clean up cronyism and corruption in Congress," Mahoney tells TIME, sounding already like a victor in a hotel ballroom, "and work to bring rationality back to the way it does things...
Thanks to aggressive redistricting in the 1990s and early 2000s, fewer than three dozen House seats are seriously in contention this election cycle, compared with more than 100 in 1994, the year Republicans swept to power with a 54-seat pickup in the House. Then there's what political pros call the ground game. For most of the 20th century, turning out voters on Election Day was the Democrats' strength. They had labor unions to supply workers for campaigns, make sure their voters had time off from their jobs to go to the polls and provide rides to get them...
...Denial, a book full of stories about an Administration pursuing a war with no clue how to go about it. And Representative Mark Foley, a Republican from Florida, resigned after his X-rated Internet chats with teenage boys from the House page program were made public. A safe seat for Republicans was suddenly in jeopardy...
...Still, the bigger worry for Florida Republicans now is how to salvage Foley's seat in a year when the G.O.P.'s control of the House was looking increasingly vulnerable. Republican Representative Clay Shaw is in a fight for survival in a district just south of Foley's, and the mere presence of controversial G.O.P. Congresswoman Katherine Harris, who is challenging incumbent Senator Bill Nelson, is expected to galvanize Florida's Democratic voters. Because the state's primary elections are past, Foley's name by law must stay on the ballot...