On the first day of the new U.S. Supreme Court term, it was business not quite as usual.

Eight high-back, black leather chairs, instead of the usual nine, stood tall behind a curved mahogany bench designed to host nine justices. And as usually happens when a justice departs, seniority forces musical chairs of a sort for all but the center seat occupied by Chief Justice John Roberts Jr.

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