Abortion, Immigration, Religion: Supreme Court Term Starts With High Profile Cases

Penny Zhou
By Penny Zhou
October 8, 2019US News
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Issues including abortion, sex discrimination, gun safety, immigration, and religious liberty will be discussed in the new term of the Supreme Court that started on Monday, Oct. 7.

Protesters are expected to be packed around the Court area during the following months and some are already camping out.

On Tuesday, the court will hear its first major cases on whether a federal law that bars sex discrimination in the workplace will cover gay and transgender employees. This is the court’s first LGBT-related case since Justice Brett Kavanaugh replaced retired Justice Anthony Kennedy, who used to write rulings for the issue.

The now conservative-majority court will also decide on whether states can bar government funding for religious schools, and whether the Obama-era DACA program can be terminated by the Trump administration. The program prevents illegal immigrants who entered the United States before they were 16 from deportation and gives them a work permit.

Nearly 700,000 people are registered in the program.

The justices will also hear debates on gun safety, including whether a New York law can stop residents from transporting their handguns outside of New York City and on a Louisiana law that puts restrictions on the state’s abortion clinics.

Justice Ruth Ginsburg is back in court after her cancer treatment. The 86-year-old liberal-leaning justice’s health is being closely watched.

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