"They can ask you about any part of the law, " said Thomas Goldstein, a leading Washington appellate attorney and founder of scotusblog.com.

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"Nobody is really in favor any more of all-white public schools, " said Thomas Goldstein, a leading Washington appellate attorney and Supreme Court legal analyst.

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They had hundreds of briefs and months to study them, " said Thomas Goldstein, publisher of SCOTUSblog.com and a prominent Washington attorney, though he conceded that "the oral arguments (in March) might have changed their minds around the margin.

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