Voting rules, f-bombs, and Obamacare: Supreme Court term to wrap up with a bang
District of Columbia | June 1, 2021
As the Supreme Court wraps up its spring term, the justices are preparing to weigh in on a series of hot-button issues, including healthcare, voting laws, and college athlete compensation.
It has been a tumultuous year for the court. Just before the justices began hearing cases last fall, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, long the most prominent liberal on the bench, died after a long battle with cancer. And when former President Donald Trump tapped Justice Amy Coney Barrett to fill her vacant seat, Democrats reacted with dismay and called for court expansion. Once President Joe Biden won the 2020 election, Justice Stephen Breyer faced increased pressure from many liberals to retire and make way for a younger judge.
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All the while, the court has been going about its business completely over the phone because of the coronavirus pandemic. In the past month, it has delivered a number of important decisions, most notably handing Google a massive victory over Oracle in a copyright case. But there’s much more to come from the court in June, the month in which it usually releases its most politically sensitive decisions. Here are five of the biggest cases still awaiting a decision before the court’s summer recess…
(Excerpts from the Washington Examiner)