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Posted on 10/05/2015 1:48:00 PM PDT by markomalley
The Supreme Court began a new term Monday and after last Spring’s big losses on gay marriage and Obamacare, conservatives are wary of the next few months where the highest court in the land is set to take on several major issues.
The Supreme Court is expected to take on cases involving union dues, abortion, affirmative action, the death penalty, Obamacare’s contraception mandate and more.
An Associated Press story Monday cited experts saying the term would be good for conservatives, a kind of bounce back after major losses last term, but others aren’t so sure.
A key reason for the AP’s confidence is that many of the issues set to come before the court this term have already been ruled on in similar cases by the justices, and they often voted conservative.
“This term, I’d expect a return to the norm, in which the right side of the court wins the majority, but by no means all of the cases,” Georgetown University law school’s Irv Gornstein told The AP.
Ed Whelan, president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, doesn’t share the same outlook.
“I’m not nearly as optimistic about conservative chances as many folks on the left say I should be,” Whelan told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
Of the cases, the Supreme Court is likely to hear the first major abortion case in nearly a decade, a case that will examine the constitutionality of Texas’ strict abortion regulations, which have reduced the number of abortion clinics in the state to nearly single digits.
The court will also decide whether public unions can force workers to pay dues even if they aren’t members of the union. A loss on this case would be devastating to public unions, which are already on the decline.
Another case would give the court the opportunity to end affirmative action, the practice where universities consider race as a factor in admissions.
The contraception mandate could get the court’s attention is well. A group of nuns in a legal battle with the mandate grabbed national headlines when Pope Francis met with them during his stateside visit last month.
These weighty decisions will surely bleed over into the 2016 race, as rulings will come down in June of 2016, just months before the election.
Based on past rulings, all the upcoming SCOTUS rulings will not be good news for America.
Yeah, they’re all buried in the Constitution .... somewhere.
And now Obama is trying to go after the Second via executive action... They’re trying to mop up what’s left of America...
BOHICA!
With this SCOTUS the number of people who want to overthrow the government and restore the Constitution grows with every new ruling.
I really don’t care what rulings they make any more, even if I like the particular ruling the fact remains that judicial tyranny is still tyranny even if you happen to approve of it.
“From my cold, dead hands”
Barry gets it all as a parting gift except the contraception thing. Thats the bone they will throw to try avoiding the riot.
The penumbra gets bigger, and bigger, and bigger.
I hope TX tells the SC to stuff it, if the abortion ruling is a bad one.
Tell them 10th Amendment, and to feel free to com and try to enforce their ruling.
The respect I had for the Supreme Court vanished this past June.
Words don’t mean what they mean, and we can make new rights based on emotion, not law.
Enough of these black robed tyrants.
et tu SCROTUS?
As pedophilia licks it hungry lips.
Time for patriotic Americans to take action against the Soopreme Kort.
Its all up to Kennedy, who will cave.
As usual. (”Constitution”?—whazzat?)
SCOTUS.
No way on earth to find out what is “constitutional” by reading the actual document . . .
To this court the Constitution is just a bag of Scrabble Letters. They take the individual letters in the Constitution and rearrange them to construct whatever words and paragraphs they need to advance the progressive agenda.
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