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But what might happen if the next president had an unexpected opportunity to change the court's direction? Obama has voiced his disagreement with the Citizens United decision in 2010 that has contributed to ever-freer campaign spending. Of his two appointees, Sotomayor was on the losing side of the Citizens United case while Kagan argued the case for the administration in her previous job. On health care, both justices voted to uphold the Obama's health care law. Romney already has called on the court to overturn the Roe v. Wade decision from 1973 that first established a woman's right to an abortion. Romney has said he would appoint justices like Alito, Scalia, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Clarence Thomas. He described them as men who follow the text of the Constitution, not their "personal policy preferences." But the health care case is a reminder that justices who generally vote a certain way do not always vote in a predictable fashion. Roberts, after all, was the decisive
-- and lone conservative -- vote to uphold the health care law.
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