AP US Government & Politics: SCOTUS Docket

Whether applying a public-accommodation law to compel an artist to speak or stay silent violates the free speech clause of the First Amendment.

Alabama case about Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act

Case about the independent state legislature theory (state legislatures, not state courts or Secretaries of State oversee election rules)

Affirmative Action, case to be heard October 31, 2022. The case will consider the precedent set in Grutter v. Bollinger: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/02-241.ZS.html

No constitutional right to abortion based on privacy, removed the undue burden test & overturned Roe v. Wade & Planned Parenthood v. Casey

Held a school employee's prayer at work did not violate the establishment clause. Eliminated the Lemon Test

SCOTUS struck down New York's concealed carry licensing law

Limits the power of the EPA to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants