Upcoming high court cases echo presidential election brawls
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Upcoming high court cases echo presidential election brawls
The Supreme Court’s lineup of new cases is fit for an election year. Affirmative action, abortion and another look at the Obama health care law all are before the court, and they could well be joined by immigration, giving the justices a run of cases that reads like a campaign platform. Also coming: disputes involving public-sector labor unions, the death penalty and the way electoral districts are drawn. Decisions in these high-profile cases almost certainly will split the court along ideological lines, mirroring the country’s stark partisan split.
This is a court that remains very assertive in its role in declaring what the law is.
University of Pennsylvania law dean Theodore Ruger
What’s more, the most contentious issues won’t be resolved until late June, barely four months before the 2016 presidential election. Every four years, interest groups across the political spectrum try to make that connection for voters. Elections matter, they say, because the winner may get to choose justices who will serve for the next quarter century or longer.
