(17 Jun 2019) The Supreme Court is nearing the end of its term with some major decisions yet to come. Associated Press reporter Mark Sherman explains "there are three major cases yet to be resolved by the court, probably before the end of next week."
Two of them involve the distribution of political power in this country over the next decade. One of those involves part what's called partisan gerrymandering," said Sherman.
"The other case involves whether there should be a citizenship question on the 2020 Census. The Trump administration is seeking to add that question. Democratic challengers and civil rights groups around the country have objected to that."
And the third major decision involves "a case out of Bladensburg, Maryland, which is a Washington suburb and a challenge over whether a 40 foot war memorial in the shape of a cross can remain on public land."
The High Court did rule Monday on some other cases.
First.the court threw out an Oregon court ruling against bakers who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.
The justices' action Monday keeps the high-profile case off the court's election-year calendar and orders state judges to take a new look at the dispute between the lesbian couple and the owners of a now-closed bakery in the Portland area.
The case involves bakers Melissa and Aaron Klein, who paid a $135,000 judgment to the couple for declining to create a cake for them in 2013.
The justices already have agreed to decide whether federal civil rights law protects people from job discrimination because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
Also in a 5-4 decision, justices let stand a lower court decision putting the a new map, favorable to Democrats in place, saying the Republican-controlled state House did not have a right to represent the state's interests in an appeal to the Supreme Court.
And Supreme Court upheld a constitutional rule that allows state and federal governments to prosecute someone for the same crime, a closely watched case because of its potential implications for people prosecuted in the Russia investigation.
The court's 7-2 decision Monday preserves a long-standing rule that provides an exception to the Constitution's ban on trying someone twice for the same offense.
Ruling for the defendant in this case might have made it harder for states to pursue criminal charges against defendants in the Russia investigation in the event they are pardoned by President Donald Trump.
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