The focus will be especially intense in June, just a few months before the 2020 election.
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Abortion, immigrants, LGBT rights top Supreme Court’s new term
The court also could be front and center in the presidential campaign itself, especially with health concerns surrounding 86-year-old Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Court to mull transgender, gay rights in workplace
Gay rights leaders say that in more than half of the country, there is no specific protection for gay or transgender workers.
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Marc A. Thiessen: Senate Democrats make unprecedented threat against Supreme Court
They want to restructure the court if the justices do not rule as they see fit. Talk about ‘disdain for an independent judiciary.’
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Federal judges can’t stop partisan gerrymandering, Supreme Court rules
They ‘have no license to reallocate political power between the two major political parties,’ Chief Justice John Roberts says in a landmark 5-4 decision joined by the court’s other conservatives.
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Court rejects challenge to regulation of gun silencers
The Supreme Court rejected the challenge just days after a gunman used one in a shooting rampage that killed 12 people in Virginia.