Las Vegas Review-Journal

Supreme Court has full slate before its June recess

- By David G. Savage Tribune Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is heading into the final month of its term, facing decisions on gerrymande­ring, unions, gay rights, abortion and President Donald Trump’s travel ban.

The justices are expected to announce decisions on the first day of every workweek until the end of June, and then adjourn for the summer. Major pending cases:

Partisan gerrymande­ring:

The court will decide a political line-drawing dispute that could determine which party controls Congress and many state legislatur­es in the decade ahead.

Gay rights and religion: The court will decide whether certain store owners are entitled to an exemption from a state’s anti-discrimina­tion law because of their religious beliefs.

Unions and public employees: The court will decide whether teachers, police and other public employees in California, New York and 20 other mostly Democratic states can be required by law to pay a “fair share fee” to cover the cost of collective bargaining even if they don’t belong toaunion.

Travel ban: The court will decide whether Trump has the power, acting on his own, to bar most visitors and immigrants from several Muslim-majority nations.

Cellphones and privacy: The court will decide whether police must obtain a search warrant based on “probable cause” before they obtain data from a cellphone company that would allow them to track a suspect’s movements for days or weeks at a time.

Pregnancy centers and abortion: The court will decide whether California can require faith-based “crisis pregnancy centers” to notify their patients that the state provides free or low cost “prenatal care and abortion for eligible women.”

Online merchants and sales taxes: The court will decide whether internet merchants can be required to collect sales taxes for all the states and thousands of municipali­ties where their customers live.

Voting rolls and purges: The court will decide whether states can remove people from the voting rolls if they do not cast ballots for two years and do not respond to several notices in the mail.

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