Oct 07, 2024
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) -- The Supreme Court's new term is officially underway, with justices hearing the first oral arguments Monday morning.  "There are no big blockbusters, with one possible exception," George Washington University Law School Associate Dean Alan Morrison said.  Morrison says the big case on the docket this term deals with a Tennessee law that bans puberty blockers for transgender youth.  The state will consider if the state violated the constitution "when they treated the providing of medical services to transgender youth differently from the providing of medical services of the same kind for youth who are not transgender," according to Morrison.  Justices will also hear a major gun case Tuesday centered on so-called "ghost guns." Their parts can be bought online and assembled at home. "These guns are untraceable, the ghost guns, and that's a very big problem for law enforcement," Morrison said.  The court will decide if the government overstepped its authority regulating those guns.  The new docket comes as the court decides on other issues.  Monday, it let a lower court decision stand that says Texas hospitals don't have to provide emergency abortions that would violate state law.  The White House slammed the decision.  "It means that women in Texas could still be denied critical emergency medical care," White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.  Morrison says more cases may be added later, some possibly dealing with the election.  "It can grant cases up through the middle of January or on an emergency basis after that," Morrison said.  Decisions on these cases are expected in summer of 2025. 
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