Following a historic term last year that saw decisions protecting a commonly used abortion medication and providing former President Donald Trump with partial immunity from prosecution, the court’s nine justices are back on the bench.
Legal disputes about the impending presidential elections could be significant in what should be a tightly contested race in the upcoming months.
With its six-three conservative majority still in place, its decisions could encourage more skepticism among Americans, whose opinion of its work is currently at a nearly all-time low of 43%, according to Gallup.
Here’s a look at some of the most important cases on its docket for the upcoming year.
In Tennessee, transgender care
US v. Skrmetti, in which the justices will consider the Biden administration’s appeal to a Republican-backed prohibition on gender care for juveniles, is arguably the most prominent case of the term.
Effective July 20, 23rd, the Tennessee ban forbids the prescription of hormones or puberty blockers for minors suffering from gender dysphoria if the treatment is intended to “enable a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex” or address “purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the minor’s sex and asserted identity.”
