Supreme Court begins new term with major Trump cases on docket

The Supreme Court on Monday began its new term with major cases involving the Trump administration on its docket.

In November, December and January, the court will listen to oral arguments in three significant cases regarding President Trump and his authority to implement tariffs and to fire both the Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook and Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, Reuters reported.

The high court's first major case on its fall-winter docket will begin Tuesday – regarding the legality of a Colorado law that bans "conversion therapy" that intends to change a minor's sexual orientation or gender identity to straight or their biological sex.

On Monday, the court heard a case on whether a Texas judge violated the rights of David Villarreal under the Constitution's Sixth Amendment to have a lawyer assist in his murder trial defense. The judge prohibited Villarreal from discussing his testimony with his lawyer during an overnight recess in the 2018 trial. Villarreal was convicted and sentenced to 60 years in prison.

The justices rejected Missouri's appeal to revive a Republican-backed law that had the intention of preventing several federal gun laws from being enforced in the state, and a lawsuit from Project Veritas to invalidate on the basis of free speech an Oregon law that generally bans unannounced recordings of conversations.

The court on Monday also declined to hear a bid by Sberbank, Russia's largest bank, to avoid a lawsuit brought under a U.S. anti-terrorism law. The case against the bank alleges that it did business with a group blamed for downing a Malaysia Airlines jetliner over Ukraine in 2014.

Also, the court rejected a bid by Turkey's state-owned lender Halkbank to avoid charges of fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy in the U.S. for allegedly helping Iran evade American economic sanctions.