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The Daily

The New Supreme Court Cases to Watch

The Daily

The New York Times

Daily News, News

4.4102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Last week, the Supreme Court began its new term, picking up where it left off on the most contentious issues of the day, with cases connected to government power, gun rights and abortion. Adam Liptak, who covers the Supreme Court for The Times, explains why, while previous terms produced major victories for the conservative legal movement, this term may be different.

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From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tarrini-C, and this is The Daily.

0:12.0

Last week, the Supreme Court began its new term, picking up where it left off on the most

0:17.5

contentious issues of the day.

0:20.5

But while previous terms produced major victories for the conservative legal movement, my colleague

0:26.3

Adam Littak explains today why this term may be different.

0:36.9

It's Tuesday, October 10th.

0:45.2

Adam.

0:46.2

Hi, Sabrina.

0:47.2

You're back, which means the Supreme Court is back.

0:52.0

And we wanted to go to you, Adam, our trusted Supreme Court expert, to learn what big

0:58.8

cases are coming up this term.

1:00.8

And we've had, of course, two terms of blockbuster cases that brought these huge changes

1:06.0

to American society, tugging it to the right.

1:09.3

What do you expect to see this term?

1:11.7

I think this term will show us and bring into focus how far and how fast it wants to

1:19.0

continue to move to the right.

1:21.7

It has a lot of unfinished business from those earlier terms.

1:25.7

It's facing a series of kind of follow-up cases in the areas of administrative law, agency

1:31.4

power, the Second Amendment, gun rights, and abortion, all of which are cases in which

1:40.0

conservative litigants and conservative courts are pushing hard in anticipation of a positive

1:49.1

reception from the Supreme Court.

1:51.4

So you're saying that conservative legal activists watch the 6th-3 majority make major

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