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The little Michigan school has big clout with the Republican Party — and boasts about its ‘alumni pipeline to the Supreme Court’

The Providence Journal NORTH PROVIDENCE — Brian Cervini felt the urge to get a coffee as he navigated his Saturday afternoon in typical fashion.  Cervini, a master of auto body repair, had attended to a smashed Toyota SUV in the North Providence shop. Later, he had urged a colleague to go home to his family. Cervini would take care of the closing chores.   Off to Cumberland Farms he went.  There, in the store on Smith Street, a young man with a history of violence and no previous contact...