The Supreme Court Term Opens Monday With Religion, Guns and Climate Cases

The Supreme Court’s new term opens Monday, and NPR describes the calendar as carrying big test cases on religion, guns and climate change. NPR adds that the emergency docket keeps coming up as well — the lane where the court is asked to intervene outside the ordinary argument schedule. Three of the most contested areas of American life, plus a channel built for speed rather than full briefing, is a term that will keep the court in the middle of arguments it did not ask to host.