Supreme Court cases in new term pose a multi-front challenge to the unaccountable administrative state

The Supreme Court's new term does not include headline-grabbing social issues, but the constitutional balance of power and the future of the administrative state. 

Carrie Campbell Severino is president of the Judicial Crisis Network.  

They also receive applications for review on its emergency docket – typically difficult questions on which the justices are asked to decide whether to give temporary relief without issuing final dispositions. There is a chance that cases involving social media content moderation, abortion clinic buffer zones, abortion pill regulation, and state bans on gender transition procedures for minors will make their way to the high court in one form or another. 

The emerging theme among the court’s cases on its merits docket so far is the constitutional separation of powers. The Constitution divides the federal government into three branches – the legislative, executive, and judicial – and forbids each of them from exercising the powers given to the other branches.