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JCONLINE.COM FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2020 7A WASHINGTON For a Supreme Court that says it has an allergy to poli- tics, the next few months might re- quire a lot of tissues. The court is poised to issue deci- sions in the full bloom of spring in cases dealing with abortion, LGBT rights and immigration. The crop of political hot potatoes on the agenda will test Chief Jus- tice John insistence that the public should not view the court as just another political institution. interesting that all of this is coming together in an election year. The chief justice has made it clear that people should view the court as a non- political branch of government, and people tend to have the opposite view when they see these big said Sarah Harrington, who has argued 21 cases in front of the high court.
The justices are to gather Friday for the time in nearly a month to put the touches on opinions in cases that were argued in the fall and decide what new cases to take on. Chronic pain No matter how many times the Su- preme Court upholds the Care Act, a new challenge seems to arise. This time, a federal judge in Tex- as struck down the entire law in 2018, deciding that decision to eliminate the penalty for not having insurance rendered the health insur- ance requirement unconstitutional. Even though lawmakers changed only the one provision and left the rest of the massive law in place, U.S. Judge District Judge Reed held that the entire law had to go.
The lawsuit was by Texas and other Republican- dominated states. The federal appeals court in New Orleans agreed with about the insurance require- ment but ordered him to redo his analy- sis about the rest of the law. Works in progress The court is considering whether the federal civil rights law known as Title VII that prohibits workplace discrimi- nation because of sex, among several categories, protects LGBT people. In November, the court took up the decision to end the De- ferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that also shields participants from deportation. Four years ago, the court struck down a Texas law regulating abortion clinics because it placed an on women seeking an abortion, in violation of their constitutional rights.
In argu- ments on March 4, the justices were to weigh an essentially identical law from Louisiana. The only is a big one the makeup of the court, most no- tably, the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy and his replacement by Brett Kavanaugh. Both sides of the abortion debate are watching closely to see if the Re- publican-appointed justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Roberts, Gor- such and Kavanaugh are willing to take the steps in a retreat from pro- tecting the right to abortion that the Su- preme Court announced in 1973. Supreme Court justices have big decisions ahead Obamacare, Title VII, abortion on docket Mark Sherman ASSOCIATED PRESS The Supreme Court justices are gathering Friday for the time in nearly a month to fall cases and decide what new ones to take on. SUSAN FILE SEOUL, South Korea South Korea reported its death from the new coronavirus Thursday, while the may- or of a southeastern city urged its 2.5 million people to stay inside as in- fections linked to a church congrega- tion spiked.
The death was the ninth from the virus known as COVID-19 outside mainland China. The Korea Centers for Disease Con- trol and Prevention said the South Ko- rean man, believed to be about 63 years old, died at a hospital Wednes- day and posthumously tested positive for the virus. The center also 22 addi- tional cases of the virus, raising the to- tal in South Korea to 104. Twenty-one of those new cases were in and around the city of Daegu, where the mayor urged citizens earlier Thursday to stay home and wear masks even indoors if possible. In a televised news conference, Mayor Kwon Young-jin expressed fears that rising infections in the re- gion will soon overwhelm the health care system and called for ur- gent help from the central govern- ment.
The Korea Centers for Disease Con- trol and Prevention said 49 of 73 new patients in the region in the past two days went to services at a Daegu church attended by a previ- ously virus patient or con- tacted her elsewhere. That patient is a South Korean woman in her early 60s who has no re- cent record of overseas travel, accord- ing to center She tested posi- tive for the virus Tuesday. South Korea reports 1st virus death Kim Tong-Hyung and Hyung-Jin Kim ASSOCIATED PRESS.
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