Supreme Court Takes Eight Cases, but Doesn’t Act on Some Big Ones
If the Supreme Court is to hear an unusually large number of pending petitions on significant issues, it will have to act soon.
By Adam Liptak
Jan. 11, 2019
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court added eight cases to its docket on Friday, including ones on how gun laws apply to undocumented immigrants and whether the police may have blood drawn from unconscious motorists suspected of drunken driving.
The court took no action on an unusually large number of pending petitions on significant issues, including President Trump’s efforts to shut down a program that shields some 700,000 young undocumented immigrants from deportation and to bar most transgender people from military service.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/11/u...new-cases.html