It’s looking like the Supreme Court is gearing up for another blockbuster year when it convenes in early October. The Court is expected to modify, if not end, race-based affirmative action in college admissions. It’s also expected to rule on a dispute over Title 42, the Trump-era measure that sends migrants back over the border rather than allowing them to go through the regular asylum process. And there’s a free speech case of a website designer in Colorado who is challenging the state’s anti-discrimination law by refusing to provide services to an LGBTQ couple. Straight Arrow News contributor Larry Lindsey takes a look at what’s ahead.

Another case is going to be the review of the student loan forgiveness by the president and specifically by the Department of Education. Now, what does the law say? The law says the education department can change the terms of student loans in the event of war or national emergency. We’re not at war. I’m not exactly sure what the national emergency is. For a while, it was about COVID. And what they did was to extend the terms. But we don’t have a COVID emergency right now. And the courts are going to look at that. 

One of the more interesting ones is California and pigs. Now a lot of Californians consume pork. But California doesn’t grow many pigs or raise many pigs. But they passed the law saying that any pork consumed in California, whether it’s produced there or not, the pig has to be raised with at least 24 square feet of its own to romp around it. Well, I don’t know about the merits of the case. But what’s odd about this is California is not only regulating its own pig farms, but because they consume 15% of the nation’s pork, they’re basically regulating lots of farms, a great majority of farms that are outside California. And the Supreme Court is going to look at that very closely.