As the Supreme Court readies to kick off its new term next week, there are two particular issues that are "looming disasters," according to a report in Vox. One of the three Supreme Court liberal justices, Elena Kagan, wrote in her dissenting opinion in 2021 that SCOTUS “has treated no statute worse” than the Voting Rights Act — the landmark 1965 law that banned race discrimination in elections. Although about half of U.S. states have laws restricting conversion therapy, Vox explains, and despite the fact that "“every major medical, psychiatric, psychological, and professional mental health organization opposes the use of conversion therapy," the case in question raises "a difficult First Amendment question," Vox says. According to Vox, the court is also predicted to uphold state laws requiring student athletes to play on a sex-segregated team that aligns with their sex assigned at birth. "And, of course, the Court is dominated by conservative Republicans who, in United States v. Skrmetti (2025), recently held that states may prohibit minors from receiving gender-affirming health care.