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In an excerpt from her forthcoming book, CNN supreme court analyst Joan Biskupic reveals a body where the conservative majority fortified by Donald Trump is driving forward with decisions to change America - even as some of its members try to appear conciliatory in public.

She also describes chief justice John Robert's decision to quickly move Ruth Bader Ginsburg's papers from her office after she died in 2020, which offended some of her aides used to more relaxed transitions between justices.

Within days of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's memorial service in late September 2020, boxes of her files and other office possessions were moved down to a dark, windowless theater on the Supreme Court's ground floor, where - before the ongoing pandemic - tourists could watch a film about court operations.

Grieving aides to the justice who'd served 27 years and become a cultural icon known as the Notorious RBG" sorted through the chambers' contents there.