WASHINGTON — Chief Justice John Roberts’ original plan for the current Supreme Court term was to frontload arguments at the beginning last fall, leaving fewer cases to be argued and decided this spring. The goal was to alleviate the workload crunch in May and June before adjournment. It didn’t quite work out that way.
Ten cases are set for argument in late April, and as John Payton put it Thursday, four of them are “very significant civil rights cases” involving issues where discrimination persists: voting rights, employment, access to home mortgages and education. So much for an easy spring at the Supreme Court.
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