CBN News - A New Supreme Court Term; ACLJ to Argue Key First Amendment Case

October 3, 2008
A New President Could Mean a New Court
By Paul Strand, CBN News Sr. Washington Correspondent

Click here to view Pat Robertson's interview with Jay Sekulow from the American Center for Law and Justice. Sekulow shares more on what's before the High Court this session.

WASHINGTON -- The gavel's about to come down to start the U.S. Supreme Court's new term.

As usual, the rulings are likely to touch Americans' lives far and wide.

Lawyer Curt Levey, executive director of the judicial think-tank Committee for Justice, listed some of the cases coming before the court to CBN News:

"Whether labor unions can negotiate away a worker's right to go to court; whether environmental protections override national security when people feel that Navy training exercises bothered dolphins; whether Title Nine -- the gender discrimination statute -- trumps the Constitution," he said.

The American Center for Law and Justice is also involved in a First Amendment case about whether cities that accept some religious monuments and memorials from private groups have to accept all of them.

And this term may start to see a radical altering of the court.

Because whoever gets elected president November 4, Obama or McCain, could well pick three and maybe as many as six new justices.