USA Today looks at some of the major cases already on the Supreme Court’s calendar for the term that begins on October 7.
Most of the high-profile cases on the 2013 term’s docket fall into one of two categories: Lower courts sided either with liberal activists or federal agencies. They include: A challenge to the Federal Election Commission’s limit on how much donors can contribute over two years to candidates, parties and political action committee s… A defense by Michigan’s Republican attorney general of the state’s 2006 constitutional amendment banning affirmative-action policies at state universities. … The Greece, N.Y., town board’s defense of its policy allowing local clergy to deliver prayers at town board meetings … A challenge by abortion opponents to a Massachusetts law setting up 35-foot buffer zones around reproductive health clinics that perform abortion s… A defense by Oklahoma Republican officials of a state law that has the effect of blocking most medical abortions.
