The US Supreme Court is currently reviewing a wide range of significant cases, including those concerning gun control, transgender healthcare, online pornography, religious freedom, technology regulation, and voting rights.
WASHINGTON, Feb 12 — The US Supreme Court ’s current term includes cases involving guns, gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors, online pornography, religious rights, TikTok, preventive healthcare, Planned Parenthood funding, job discrimination, federal regulatory powers on nuclear waste storage and vape products, voting rights and more.Transgender rights
A lower court found that the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives exceeded its authority in issuing the rule targeting parts and kits for ghost guns, which can be assembled at home in minutes. The suit accused gun companies of knowingly maintaining a distribution system that leads to guns being trafficked to cartels in Mexico.— Reuters picThe justices on Jan 17 upheld a law banning TikTok in the United States on national security grounds if its Chinese parent company ByteDance did not sell the short-video app by a deadline set by Congress.
They will hear an appeal by a heterosexual woman seeking to revive her lawsuit against the Ohio Department of Youth Services in which she said she lost her job to a gay man and was passed over for a promotion in favor of a gay woman in violation of federal civil rights law.A bid led by two Catholic dioceses to establish in Oklahoma the nation’s first taxpayer-funded religious charter school will go before the court in a case testing the separation of church and state.
The justices took up an appeal by the Biden administration of a lower court’s ruling that sided with a group of Christian businesses who objected to their employee health plans covering HIV-preventing medication and had argued that the task force’s structure violated the US Constitution.
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