So many of the cases before the Supreme Court appear to concern the hot issues of the day: immigration, healthcare, same sex marriage.

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Like many Supreme Court decisions, they concern limits on federal powers over the states.

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The arrest order was connected to Musharraf's decision in 2007 to dismiss senior judges, including the chief justice of the Supreme Court, apparently out of concern that they would challenge his re-election as president.

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