The Christian Science Monitor Daily for October 4, 2021

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Enough of his colleagues have been attracted to these narrower opinions in the past to form a majority, note court watchers, including in high-profile cases last term on religious liberty and the Affordable Care Act.
53% : For the term as a whole, the overarching question is whether narrow rulings are possible after the court has chosen to confront major constitutional questions they have reinforced - or, in the case of gun rights, avoided - for decades.
50% : October and November will also bring major cases on death penalty jurisprudence - including an appeal from Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev - and state funding for religious schools.
46% : But the Supreme Court has still upheld the core right to abortion, always with a conservative justice joining his liberal colleagues.
42% : With respect to the court's legitimacy, he added, "I don't think there will be a groundswell among the public unless there's a major ruling on abortion."
42% : In that sense, Dobbs is the most direct threat to the right to abortion the court has heard in a generation.
36% : "Judicial philosophies are not the same as political parties."Others skeptical that the court has become politicized point to recent high-profile rulings where the court bucked expectations of conservative victories, such as when it upheld "Obamacare" last year and voted to not shield President Trump's tax returns.
28% : In quick succession this summer, the court issued brief orders that halted the federal government's pandemic-related eviction moratorium, required the Biden administration to reinstate a Trump-era immigration policy, and allowed a Texas law effectively banning abortion in the state to remain in effect pending appeals.

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