Election Day and Supreme Court session arrive the same week
Voters will choose all House seats and 35 Senate seats on Nov. 3, while justices hear arguments on a religious discrimination case.
By Ethan Cooper ·
The week ahead combines two major federal events in a single stretch.
Americans will vote on Tuesday, Nov. 3. All 435 seats in the U.S. House are up for grabs. Voters will also decide the fates of 35 Senate seats and elect governors in 36 states. Republicans aim to keep their majority in Congress for the final two years of President Donald Trump’s second term. Democrats are attempting to flip both chambers. Polls currently list the Senate races in Texas, Michigan, and Alaska as toss-ups.
The Supreme Court will begin its November oral argument schedule on Wednesday, Nov. 2. The session runs through Monday, Nov. 10. Justices will spend seven hours hearing cases over five days. The schedule features one case that draws particular attention from legal watchers.
The lead case is St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy. Arguments for that case are set for Tuesday, Nov. 3. The case asks whether excluding a Catholic preschool from a universal preschool program in Colorado constitutes religious discrimination.
The court will hear the arguments the same day that Americans cast their ballots in the midterm elections.
