Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: The Justice Department will likely weigh the substance not o

You are correct!

For conditional (IF/THEN) statements about potential future events, there are two different workable pairings oftenses:

•  IF +[looks like PRESENT tense] , THEN +["WILL + verb"]
By using this pair of constructions, the writer implies that the probability of the "IF" part is
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