Birthright citizenship, redistricting among 10 cases left at Supreme Court
The Supreme Court is set for a momentous week as the justices enter the homestretch of decision season, racing to finish their work by their self-imposed, end-of-June deadline.
The justices are set to issue major decisions on President Trump’s birthright citizenship order, LGBTQ-themed books in schools and racial gerrymandering. The next opinions are expected Thursday.
The court also has before it several emergency cases filed by the Trump administration concerning efforts to dismantle the Education Department and its mass layoffs across the federal bureaucracy.
Here’s what’s left on the justices’ docket.
10 cases to come
The Supreme Court has yet to release opinions in 10 of the 62 argued cases this term.
Many of those remaining are the most controversial disputes.
Since January, the court has been drafting its decision on Texas’s age-verification law that requires adult websites to verify their users are at least 18 years old.
The law faces a First Amendment challenge from the adult entertainment industry, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which argues a lower court used too lenient a test to uphold the statute.
At oral arguments, the court appeared divided. Some justices cast doubt that the content-filtering alternatives they endorsed two decades ago are still viable given the explosion of online pornography.
Later in the term,........
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