The new U.S. Supreme Court term boasts a fall line-up that Hollywood would envy, featuring high stakes cases involving abortion, religion, money, politics and power.
Although the docket has yet to match the landmark nature of last term’s same-sex marriage and voting rights rulings, “I think this has the potential to be a really big term, just as important as the last two,” said Pamela Harris of Georgetown University Law Center. “There are an unusual number of hot-button issues and the rulings will have very important doctrinal and spill-over effects.”
