In the Supreme Court’s first full term since the arrival of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh shifted it to the right, the justices confronted an unusually potent mix of political and social issues in the middle of both a presidential election year and a public health crisis.
Among the decisions that are likely to capture public attention as the presidential campaign enters its final months are ones on abortion, gay rights, the fate of young immigrants known as Dreamers and access to President Trump’s financial records. A new survey from researchers at Harvard, Stanford and the University of Texas suggests that the public generally supports the politically liberal position in all of those cases, though Democrats and Republicans are deeply divided over several of them. CONT.
Adam Liptak & Alicia Parlapiano, New York Times
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