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By Clay Waters ~

New York Times Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak sounded his latest alarm about the dangerously conservative Supreme Court in Tuesday’s paper. The online headline deck: “An ‘Imperial Supreme Court’ Asserts Its Power, Alarming Scholars — Several new studies document the current court’s distinctive insistence on its dominance and the justices’ willingness to use procedural shortcuts to achieve it.”

After decades of decisions expanding the reach of the federal government by liberal Supreme Courts, on abortion, regulation, education, affirmative action, religion, gay marriage, etc., now it’s alarming if there’s any kind of push in the direction back toward Congress or the states.

Liptak (pictured) expanded upon his previously expressed hostility toward what he considers a dangerously conservative court, backed up by several cherry-picked law review studies: The Supreme Court is not just right-wing, it’s power-hungry as well.

The conventional critique of the Supreme Court these days…