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The Supreme Court begins its latest term on Monday with a docket full of high-stakes cases that touch on some of the most contentious issues in American politics, including guns, voting and transgender rights.
This will be the second full term for the nation’s highest court since President Trump returned to the White House. The previous term, which wrapped up in June, was packed with landmark rulings in a long list of major cases, including Trump’s tariffs, birthright citizenship and a slate of key immigration decisions.
The justices will likely take on additional cases over the course of the term, but there are already plenty of pivotal cases for the court to consider in the coming months.
Here’s a rundown of the big cases headed to the Supreme Court this term and what their eventual rulings might mean for the country.
Guns
Over the past two decades, the Supreme Court has issued a series of decisions that have significantly expanded gun rights. It could go even further next term when it considers whether laws banning certain semiautomatic rifles, like the AR-15, violate the Second Amendment.
This category of guns was banned nationwide for a decade until Congress allowed the law to expire in 2004. Similar bans are currently in place in about a dozen states. Gun rights groups have challenged those laws, arguing that it’s unconstitutional for these specific types of firearms to be singled out for bans that don’t apply to other guns under the Second Amendment.
Citizen voting
A dozen states currently require voters to show proof of citizenship — like a birth certificate or passport — when they register to vote. The Supreme Court will consider the legality of these requirements again, this time in a challenge to Arizona’s latest proof-of-citizenship law in the case Republican National Committee v. Mi Familia Vota. The law is currently blocked by a federal circuit court ruling that called some of its provisions “unlawful measures of voter suppression.” Republicans have asked the court to overturn that decision and allow the requirements in Arizona and elsewhere to remain in place.
The court’s final ruling could have massive implications for voting across the United States. Non-citizen voting is extraordinarily rare and there are already legal measures in place in every state to ensure that only ballots from citizens are counted. That hasn’t stopped Republicans from pushing for new laws requiring voters to prove their citizenship. Ballot measures aimed at curbing noncitizen voting will be considered by voters in six states in November. Trump’s signature elections bill, the SAVE America Act, would apply the requirements nationwide.
Some researchers argue that, rather than preventing fraud, these laws create hurdles that prevent eligible voters from casting their ballots. According to one estimate, as many as 21 million people across the United States lack the documents they would need to be able to vote under proof-of-citizenship requirements.
Transgender rights
One of the many points of debate around transgender rights in recent years has been the extent of parents' authority over decisions involving their trans-identifying children. The court will weigh in on this issue once again this term when it hears a case challenging a Washington law that gives the operators of emergency shelters the option not to contact parents of runaway transgender youth who are seeking gender-affirming care. A group of parents has sued, arguing that the law violates their parental rights “to raise their child in accordance with the child’s biological sex.”
The pending case runs along similar lines to one decided earlier this year, in which the justices ruled in favor of parents seeking to block a California law that limited when schools can “out” transgender students to their families.
Schools
In 2020, Colorado voters approved a ballot measure to establish universal preschool throughout the state. As part of the program, state funding is only available to private preschools that meet certain “equal opportunity” standards — including a willingness to enroll LGBTQ students. Two Catholic preschools sued the state, arguing that they were being discriminated against on the basis of their religion by being denied state funding for standing by their beliefs. The state contends that there is no discrimination present because its rules apply to all schools, whether they’re religiously affiliated or not.
In two similar cases over the past decade, the court has come down on the side of the schools, ruling that states generally can't exclude religious schools from public programs simply because they are religious.
Immigration
After siding with Trump in a series of immigration-related rulings during its most recent term, the court has agreed to take on three more cases that touch on the heart of the president’s immigration agenda.
The headline case, which the court agreed to hear just a few days before the start of the term, centers around the Trump administration’s mandatory detention policy for undocumented immigrants. Historically, migrants who are being considered for removal have had the opportunity to apply for release from detention while they wait for their case to be decided by the courts. Trump changed that policy, causing tens of thousands of immigrants to remain in detention while they await potential deportation. Lower courts have split on the question of whether it’s legal for the administration to uniformly deny detained migrants the right to a bond hearing. Now, the Supreme Court will have the final say.
A second case centers around Trump’s migrant detention policies for a different group of immigrants. The central question is whether migrants with a criminal history, including those who were in the country legally, can be held in detention centers indefinitely, or if they have the right to challenge their detention in court. The case involves two lawful permanent residents who were detained for what they argue was an “unreasonably prolonged” period without a bond hearing. Immigration detention has become a major source of debate during Trump’s second term, amid reports of unsafe conditions at detention centers and a striking increase in the number of deaths among detainees.
The third immigration case involves immigrants who had once been granted asylum in the United States, had that status revoked and now argue that they should be eligible to become lawful permanent residents. The government argues, and lower courts have agreed so far, that only immigrants with active asylum protection can apply for a green card.
Climate change
Over the past few years, the Supreme Court has significantly narrowed the government’s power to regulate greenhouse emissions in a series of landmark rulings. Next term, it will take up another case that could close off yet another pathway that municipalities have used to try to fight climate change.
Lawmakers in Boulder, Colo., have sued oil and gas companies for their role in perpetuating climate change. Those companies have asked the Supreme Court to block the lawsuit. They contend, and the Trump administration agrees, that only the federal government has the power to seek these types of damages because the impacts of climate change go far beyond Boulder’s jurisdiction. Several other cities and some states have filed similar suits against the fossil fuel industry. The court could invalidate all of them if it rules in the companies’ favor.
Jury trials
The court will decide whether juries in criminal trials must have 12 jurors. That’s already the law in most of the country, but a half-dozen states allow for as few as six jurors in certain cases. The case centers around Hamed Kian, a Florida chiropractor who was convicted of practicing after his license had been suspended following allegations of inappropriate contact with patients. Kian’s attorneys argue that the small jury violated his constitutional right to a fair and speedy trial.
This article originally appeared on Yahoo News at https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/article/guns-voting-immigration-and-more-the-biggest-cases-the-supreme-court-will-take-up-in-its-new-term-225505089.htmlSupreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has confirmed that he is considering retirement, leaving open the possibility that he could leave after next year’s term and hand another nomination to President Donald Trump.
Alito said in excerpts of a CBS News interview released Friday that he thought about retiring this year and will do so again in 2027.
“It’s something that I think that somebody at my age has to think about every term,” the 76-year-old said in the interview scheduled to air Monday. “But I thought that I could still make a valuable contribution, which is why I became a justice and a judge in the first place.”
Alito’s interview, the first in a number of expected appearances to coincide with the release of a book about his judicial philosophy, raises the possibility that Trump, whose judicial picks shifted the Supreme Court to the right, may get an opportunity to nominate a fourth justice.
The president, who expressed regret in a recent interview about several nominees who ruled against his administration on some issues, would have a harder time getting a fourth pick through the Senate if Democrats win control in the midterms.
Alito, in the CBS interview, pushed back on concerns that the timing of his retirement and his replacement could potentially unravel his work on the bench.
“It’s too hard to predict what the political situation will be and what any president might do with respect to a replacement,” he said.
Alito also defended his majority opinion in June 2022 that struck down Roe v. Wade and overturned the constitutional protections for abortion that had prevailed for decades. The decision closely matched one that had leaked a month earlier.
“We didn’t know it when we produced the draft that was leaked, but it required courage to go ahead with that because of the implications,” he said.
He said the decision resulted in the loss of old friendships.
“That’s something you have to live with,” he said, adding, “It’s part of the job that you’re going to displease people by making decisions on controversial matters, because one side or the other is going to really dislike you because of the decisions.”
This article originally appeared on Politico at https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/02/alito-supreme-court-retirement-01105789By Maria Tsvetkova
ITHACA, New York, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Cornell University student Sophia Riley Sim skipped classes this week, consumed by allegations in a lawsuit that several members of a fraternity raped a young woman in 2024 and troubled by how her university handled the case.
"Cornell has failed our community through its lack of accountability, transparency, and failure to address the state of the Cornell student body at this time," Sim, a junior, said at a public hearing on sexual assault organized by Cornell's Student Assembly on Thursday.
"There has been a lack of meaningful communication from university leadership, administrators, and faculty."
The Ivy League school has defended its handling of the matter, saying it launched a comprehensive investigation and barred the Chi Phi fraternity involved in the alleged assault from campus. The school said it imposed a range of disciplinary measures, including expulsions.
It did not immediately respond to a request for additional comment.
The hearing, held in one of Cornell's historic halls, came days after the allegations became public with the filing of a civil lawsuit and the announcement that a criminal investigation would be reopened.
The case has reignited scrutiny of how law enforcement and universities handle sexual assault complaints, with students questioning whether processes are enough to protect them. It has also drawn the attention of New York state officials, who have appointed a special prosecutor to investigate.
FEELING UNSAFE
At the Assembly hearing, speakers recounted experiences with sexual assault, broke down in tears and criticized the response of the prestigious university.
The Student Assembly - which represents Cornell's undergraduate students and can make proposals to the university's bodies or officers - unanimously approved a resolution calling on Cornell administrators to provide a full account of how the investigation was handled. It also asked the university to disclose any disciplinary measures imposed on the accused students, and publish annual reports on the outcomes of any future sexual misconduct cases.
Organizers asked that many of the dozens of speakers at the hearing not be identified or recorded.
One student said she had worked all her life to be accepted to Cornell and now felt that it had not been worth it. Several others said they did not feel safe on the 2,300-acre campus in New York's Finger Lakes region.
Thirty-five percent of undergraduate women reported experiencing nonconsensual sexual contact involving force or incapacitation since entering Cornell, according to a university survey conducted in 2025 and published on its website. That figure was up from 20% in 2021.
"WE ARE GOING TO FIGHT"
The lawsuit alleges fraternity members supplied the woman with alcohol, marijuana and ketamine before sexually assaulting her after she became incapacitated. It also alleges Cornell failed to adequately punish some of the accused students and allowed some to seek reduced penalties by writing essays. Cornell denied that essays were the only punishment meted out.
The New York Times, citing internal Cornell documents, said the men all denied any wrongdoing, with some saying the sex was consensual and others denying participation.
Cornell students have scheduled a rally for Monday to call for additional measures to protect victims.
Jane Wang, a public policy major, said she had reported a sexual assault to the university and that the process caused additional distress.
"In the midst of all of my mental, physical, and emotional recovery from the assault, I was also met with an abundance of paperwork, very little instruction on how to navigate it, and no follow up from our office about an outcome," she said.
The Ivy League school said in a statement on its website that it could not provide full information regarding individual students and disciplinary outcomes because of restrictions imposed by privacy laws.
"Our adherence to privacy laws should not be interpreted as indifference to the seriousness of the conduct at issue," the statement said.
A handful of other female students told the hearing they had been sexually assaulted on Cornell's campus in the past, without sharing details.
Saanya Agarwal, Cornell University's student women's issues representative, said the findings of the 2025 survey on sexual assaults were unacceptable.
"Clearly, this is an issue our campus and campuses throughout the United States... it's something that we're not going to accept," said Agarwal. "We are going to fight."
(Reporting by Maria Tsvetkova; editing by Paul Thomasch and Deepa Babington)
This article originally appeared on Reuters at https://uk.news.yahoo.com/cornell-rape-allegations-spark-outrage-172822680.html- Newsfeed provided by Yahoo! News
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