(CNN) On Thursday morning, we expect Attorney General William Barr to release a redacted version of the 300+-page report compiled by special counsel Robert Mueller and aimed at examining Russian interference in the 2016 election.

That release will be a BIG deal -- our first real glimpse into what the Russians were trying to do in 2016, how much (or little) the Trump campaign played along with those efforts and whether President Donald Trump (or anyone in his circle) undertook an effort to get in the way of the probe.

This is, without doubt, an end. But don't fool yourself: This is not the end.

No matter what the Mueller report says -- or how much of it we actually get to see after the redactions -- it will continue to be a source of massive contention in our culture, with tentacles that reach not only into the political world (up and down Pennsylvania Avenue) but also the legal one.

Here are five of the major fights to come over the Mueller report:

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