The Supreme Court is poised to rule on a range of controversial political issues in its current term, potentially putting the high court’s broad popularity with the public to the test.
The court’s docket this term will have the justices weighing in on workplace rights for gay and transgender people, the first major Second Amendment case in nearly a decade, new restrictions on abortion and President Trump‘s rollback of deportation protections for thousands of undocumented immigrants.
On top of the hot-button political issues, a number of Trump’s various legal battles with congressional Democrats and states seem destined to reach the Supreme Court. If they do, the justices will also be faced with constitutional questions about the powers of the president.
View the complete October 31 article by Harper Neidig on The Hill website here.