Supreme Court starts new term shorthanded

The Supreme Court starts its new term on Monday and it will be short-handed on the bench — one of several challenges the justices are facing along with cases dealing with limits on the death penalty, the separation of church and state, and employment discrimination.

Sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump’s nominee to succeed former Justice Anthony Kennedy, have already delayed his Senate confirmation and could ultimately sink his nomination. But with or without him the court will be back in session.

Whoever is confirmed to replace Kennedy will miss the first oral arguments of the term. The Supreme Court's press office said incoming justices typically don't decide cases that are heard prior to them joining the court.

Court watchers say this term as a whole is packed with potential.

“The accurate caption of this term is the calm before the storm,” Irv Gornstein, executive director of Georgetown’s Supreme Court Institute, said recently while speaking at Georgetown Law. “We’re headed for a whole new world, and the only questions are: How far are we going to go, and how fast are we going to get there?”

In the pipeline are petitions and lower-court cases that justices may agree to hear in 2019, including a challenge to the constitutionality of President Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that protects from deportation about 800,000 young adults who were illegally brought to the U.S. by their parents.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/409010-supreme-court-starts-new-term-shorthanded?userid=229233

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