The Supreme Court is tackling several issues in its new term that President Donald Trump has voiced strong views on.
The president’s ability to shape political life will be determined by the court’s action, and its decisions will have momentous significance.
The legal scrutiny will be intense.
The justices will discuss what will be a major thrust of the court’s actions over the next 10 months, much of it centered on their evaluation of Trump’s expansive claims of presidential power.
The court’s conservative majority has so far been receptive, at least in preliminary rulings, to many emergency appeals from Trump’s Republican administration.
But there could be more skepticism when the court conducts in-depth examinations of some Trump policies.
There are other things at stake.
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