The Supreme Court embarks Monday on what could be an extraordinarily controversial term, with its justices on the defensive, its actions and structure under a political microscope and abortion — the most divisive issue of them all — taking center stage.
Before the term ends next summer, the justices will have weighed in on three major public policy disputes — guns, religious rights and possibly race, if the court takes up a request to once again review affirmative action in university admissions. …
There is a danger facing the court as well. “The court’s legitimacy rests on being able to show the public that a change in personnel does not mean a dramatic change of law,” Farah Peterson, a legal historian at the University of Chicago Law School, said in a teleconference. “And that’s what’s going to be at stake this term.” CONTINUED
Robert Barnes, Washington Post
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