“The Supreme Court starts the new year Monday with a politically charged battle over organized labor, only one of the controversies that are putting the ideologically divided and aging justices at the center of the presidential campaign,” the Washington Post reports.
“Already on the docket are abortion, affirmative action, the rights of religious objectors to opt out of legal obligations, and a clutch of election-law disputes that could benefit one political party over another. The court will probably soon add a review of President Obama’s executive actions aiming to shield millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation.”
“The agenda provides a dramatic confluence of a Supreme Court term with a presidential election.”

