One feature—or perhaps a bug?—of the U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. is that the biggest and most newsworthy cases tend to come at the very end of each term in June. Court-watchers barely have time to digest last term’s blockbusters before we have to wrench our attention to the next batch of cases that, by June 2016, will no doubt be making their own headlines.
And there are plenty of major cases pending on the court’s docket to excite, outrage and divide the public. Over the next few weeks, you’ll surely hear that this term, the court may eliminate affirmative action in college admissions once and for all; order states to redraw their voting districts to account only for registered voters (a move that would substantially boost the Republican Party in virtually every major election); and set up additional hurdles for public labor unions that wish to engage in political speech.
