the US Supreme Court’s new term begins on October 7th and already there are several major cases on the Justice’s schedule the first will be argued the following day when President Joe Biden’s Administration will be defending a federal restriction on so-called ghost guns which are nearly untraceable Firearms assembled at home that have no serial numbers and are typically sold without background checks another case this term the administration will challenge a republican-backed ban in Tennessee on gender affirming medical care for transgender miners which was upheld by a lower court and a third case involves the adult entertainment Industries challenge to a Texas law requiring pornographic websites to verify the age of users of course the justices are coming back amid another presidential election campaign and so they could confront legal disputes arising from the November 5th contest between Republican former president Donald Trump and his Democratic rival kamla Harris