State officials are making strategic appeals and lower court judges are tailoring arguments in hopes of gaining a supreme court hearing for controversial cases
In Indiana, the rights of same-sex parents have come under legal fire. In Mississippi, it is access to abortion. In Pennsylvania, it’s gun control.
All three cases could be headed for the US supreme court, and the timing is no accident. Sensing opportunity with new justice Amy Coney Barrett having tilted the court to the right, state officials are making strategic appeals and lower court judges are tailoring arguments in hopes of gaining a supreme court hearing for controversial cases.
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