The Supreme Court is set to rule on affirmative action in college admissions. The court will also decide how much race should be taken into account when drawing congressional voting districts. CNN's John Sutter reports from Washington, D.C., about the big cases coming up this week.
The last Supreme Court term was a blockbuster. The justices made a number of landmark rulings, including in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which ended 50 years of the constitutional right to abortion in the United States.
The new term could be just as testing, with a series of deeply divisive cases on the docket.
Guest: Adam Liptak, a correspondent covering the United States Supreme Court for The New York Times.
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