The end of a Supreme Court term is always an exciting sprint. Justices tend to save their biggest and most controversial cases for the last weeks or days of the session.
But the October 2023 term, as the court is calling it, promises to be a particularly important ruling, with decisions about whether and how former President Donald Trump's trial for election interference will proceed. , and most importantly, you will decide when to proceed. The courts are not done with abortion either. Two major lawsuits have addressed this issue. One concerns the availability of the abortion drug mifepristone, and the other prohibits emergency abortions for pregnant women whose health is seriously at risk, even if it is not to save the woman's life. The issue concerns whether there is a right to emergency abortion even in states where it is legal. mother.
Other cases are questioning whether the government can enact reasonable limits on who can own guns (a pending case involves people accused of domestic violence), and whether a federal judge has decided that regulators This will determine how much authority can be given to the government and how state and local governments can respond. Homeless condition.
Although the court has an overwhelmingly conservative majority, surprising things can still happen, and how it decides can be just as important, if not more important, than the final outcome. There is sex. My job is to quickly and accurately translate legal terms into English for you.
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