The Supreme Court is set to gather Monday to kick off its new nine-month term, one that is expected to bring another round of divisive decisions on hot-button issues like affirmative action, voting rights, elections and LGBTQ discrimination.
that could limit state courts' authority to review elections rules approved by state legislatures under state constitutions.
Students for Fair Admissions is asking the justices to scrap its 2003 decision in Grutter v. Bollinger, which upheld the use of race as a factor in student admissions by the University of Michigan Law School. Devon Westhill, president and general counsel for the Center for Equal Opportunity, said he believes it's important for Jackson, the first Black woman to serve on the court, to express her views on race-consciousness in American life.
The case, 303 Creative v. Elenis,"bears both on the scope of speech protections and economic life, particularly for business owners, but also the degree to which businesses can refuse to serve customers," she said. Then, in the coming weeks, it will consider an election law dispute from North Carolina that involves the congressional map created by a state court for the 2022 midterm elections. That legal fight invokes the so-called independent state legislature theory, which says that under the U.S. Constitution, only the state legislature has the authority to set federal election rules, ousting oversight from state courts to ensure they comply with state constitutions.
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