After a relatively low-profile year, the justices convene on Monday to hear cases on major hot-button issues whose decisions will come down in the heat of the 2020 campaign.
The court could also wade into the legal battles over Trump's emergency declaration for a border wall; the administration's ban on asylum applications from migrants who do not cross at legal ports of entry; and whether members of the Electoral College -- who cast the actual votes for president -- may choose whomever they want regardless of their state's popular vote.
"If the court says it's perfectly lawful to fire someone for being LGBT, that is going to have trickle-down consequences as to how lower courts interpret similar federal statutes that prohibit sex discrimination in housing, in education and in health care," said Ria Mar, an attorney with the ACLU's Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender & HIV Project."The stakes could not be higher.
With the lives and livelihoods of 800,000 young immigrants hanging in the balance, the Supreme Court will decide whether the president's 2017 decision to end the DACA program was lawful. "Trump argues that it's unreviewable by the Supreme Court because it's his discretion," said Slattery."Even if the decision is reviewable, it's rational, not arbitrary."
A federal appeals court upheld the policy last year. But after the Supreme Court agreed to hear gun owners' appeal, the city voluntarily reversed its rules and now allows licensed guns to be taken to a home, business or shooting range outside the city. The case involves Lee Malvo, one of the two"D.C. Snipers," convicted of murders in the 2002 capital region rampage that killed 10. He was 17 years old at the time of the crime. A Virginia state court sentenced Malvo to life without the possibility of parole -- a decision later upheld by the state's highest court. But the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said such a sentence is unconstitutional.
The justices will consider the meaning of"fraud" and whether Kelly and Baroni's public dissembling over rationale for the lane closures actually defrauded the government of property or finances.
MrsNonToxic Do the right thing. No right wing nutcase rulings!
Fake Supreme Court sounds about RIGHT
U.S Supreme Court? Hardly. It's the GOP's activist court.
Takes on - more likes takes orders from the GOP. MoscowMitch has made sure I no longer believe the Supreme Court is an independent entity.
DACA is an ILLEGAL imposition from Obama. It needs to be overturned, and all the illegal aliens deported back to Mexico.
Yawwwwwwn. You mean the rigged Supreme Court.
Get ready for 5-4, 5-4, 5-4. But they’re not at all political, right, Chief Justice Roberts?
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