May 19 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority is back to being the conservative majority.
Two years after the court upheld President Barack Obama's health-care law and a year after it bolstered gay rights, the five Republican-appointed justices are voting together again in the highest-profile cases.
In recent weeks that group, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, has joined to loosen campaign-finance limits, back government-sponsored prayer and let states ban racial preferences. Now, as the court enters the final month-and-a-half of its term, those justices may unite in cases involving contraception, abortion protests and separation of powers.
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