What to expect from the new SCOTUS term
Rulings on gay rights, affirmative action and elections will make some Americans very cross
Three months after scrapping abortion rights, fortifying the right to bear arms and bulldozing the church-state wall, the Supreme Court’s six-justice conservative majority will take to the bench on October 3rd to reconsider more areas of American law and life. Sprinkled among the 27 cases the court has agreed to hear in its new term (about half of its eventual docket) are a few that—like last year’s crop—offer opportunities to overhaul decades-old principles.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “Back to the bench”
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