Adam Liptak

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether Mexico may sue gun manufacturers in the United States for aiding in the trafficking of weapons used by drug cartels.

Aside from major disputes on issues like transgender rights and guns, the docket is fairly routine. That could change fast if the presidential race is contested.

WASHINGTON — The new Supreme Court term, which starts as the justices return to the bench Monday, features cases on transgender

The justices considered a routine case on unemployment benefits in characteristic style, peppering the lawyers with questions and dropping hints about their views.

Both sides told the Supreme Court that long-suppressed evidence about the state’s star witness undermined the case against the inmate, Richard Glossip.

The driver, Douglas Horn, sued the maker of a product said to be free of THC under a federal racketeering law, saying he had suffered a business injury.

A Georgetown law professor argues that five rulings by the justices in recent years have allowed behavior that is “sketchy as hell” and meant to make the judiciary look good by contrast.

“Trump’s Supreme Court Agenda Is Likely to Include Legal U-Turns; In recent years, new administrations have not been shy about disavowing positions taken by their predecessors”:

The conservative legal group’s annual dinner featured a conversation between Justices Stephen G. Breyer and Neil M. Gorsuch, a conservative. Both stressed the importance of an independent judiciary.

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