The Supreme Court’s rejection last week of the Biden administration’s appeal to weigh in on a dispute over emergency abortion care in Texas foreshadows how the next president could protect or restrict abortion access without signing — or vetoing — federal legislation.

At the heart of these cases is conservatives’ thinly evidenced claim that their religious freedom is under attack.

Last week, the Supreme Court surprised court-watchers by declining to take up an emergency abortion case out of Texas,

Native Americans, a Rastafarian prisoner and Jewish professors are among those who are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear an appeal in their cases during the 2-24-25 term.