On the horizon for the Supreme Court are cases that could re-define when the government must give greater deference to a person’s religious beliefs and perhaps even a third trip to the high court for the Affordable Care Act. [Supreme Court term begins with a big question: Is it legal to fire workers for being gay?] “Probably not the revolution that some seek and others fear, but we will likely see a court moving further and faster in a rightward direction,” said Irv Gornstein, executive director of the Georgetown Law Center’s Supreme Court Institute. “That’s not how we at the court function, and the results in our cases do not suggest otherwise.”[Is Supreme Court too deferential to Trump or sending message to judges?] A Supreme Court brief by Democratic senators ignites controversy]Severino called it a “thinly veiled ultimatum to Chief Justice Roberts .

Source: Washington Post October 06, 2019 17:49 UTC