Joan Biskupic takes you inside the Supreme Court with exclusive new details about how the court handled its pivotal term that dealt with LGBTQ rights, abortion and investigating President Donald Trump. The ruling that emerged in the consolidated LGBTQ cases reflects a new kind of consensus-building among the justices. (One of the most significant powers of the chief justice is deciding who gets to write the court's majority opinion in a case. The consolidated cases represented the Supreme Court's first test on LGBTQ rights since the 2018 retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy. Journalists and lawyers watch for signs of who might be writing the majority opinion to learn which way the outcome could be headed.

Source: CNN July 28, 2020 10:04 UTC