The Supreme Court’s 2016-2017 term – ‘the calm before the storm’

That's what the headline is over at the Washington Post's Volokh Conspiracy. Here's what the Court has next term:

The court had already agreed to hear cases concerning the Trump administration’s immigration executive order, religious objections to providing services for same-sex weddings, the constitutional limits (if any) on partisan gerrymandering, the limits on state ability to maintain (or “purge”) voter rolls, the application of the Fourth Amendment to historical cell-site data, the “waters of the United States” (aka “WOTUS”) rule, the Alien Tort Statute and mandatory employee arbitration, as well as two immigration-related cases for which the court scheduled reargument (Jennings and Dimaya).

In addition to all that, we've got rumors of Justice Kennedy's retirement swirling. Throw that into the mix, and it's going to be a pretty big term for the Court.