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Yet Chispa’s quarter-million-and-change — which paid for mailers, digital ads, phone bankers and canvassers targeting Latino voters in a district that swings from Brea to southern Los Angeles County and ends in Little Saigon — might prove one of the most consequential sums dropped in Orange County politics in decades.

The issue goes to the heart not only of what students are taught but how federal and state education policies will affect the nation’s politics after one of the most consequential elections in its history.

This unpredictability could make managing America’s most consequential strategic relationship even harder.

This is why the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s forthcoming decision in Kaul will be consequential even if the justices later rule the law to be unconstitutional.

What the inquiry says about the future could be just as consequential as what it says about the past.