Ian Millheiser, you cover the Supreme Court for Vox and the Court begins a new term today.

The last one, as I recall, was kind of sleepy.

What's on deck this time?

Oh boy.

This is going to be a huge term.

They've got a big abortion case.

They've got two big immigration cases.

One of which literally deals with whether a border guard can get away with shooting someone

across the Mexican border.

There's a big Obamacare case looming that they might have to take.

And they've got a huge LGBT discrimination case, which is probably the biggest employment

discrimination case to reach the court in 30 years.

Okay.

Let's start with this abortion case that the Supreme Court decided to hear just on Friday.

What is this case that the court will be taking up?

So this is a Louisiana case involving a state law that requires doctors to have admitting

privileges in a nearby hospital in order to perform an abortion.

Now why that is so difficult is that there's no law that compels the hospital to give an

abortion provider admitting privileges.

So what you end up happening is all of these abortion providers would love to get admitting

privileges, but they can't get them because none of these hospitals will allow them to

get the privileges.

...