--- title: New Supreme Court Term Likely to Yield Conservative Victories description: "The left side did a lot of winning last year" canonical: https://time.com/4061023/supreme-court-term-preview/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-05T10:48:52.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T11:30:23.182Z article:section: Politics og:title: New Supreme Court Term Likely to Yield Conservative Victories og:description: "The left side did a lot of winning last year" og:url: https://time.com/4061023/supreme-court-term-preview/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd639e04f16fcc4f4/698866d2e20a87e2fea8d9b8/supreme-court.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Supreme Court og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: New Supreme Court Term Likely to Yield Conservative Victories twitter:description: "The left side did a lot of winning last year" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd639e04f16fcc4f4/698866d2e20a87e2fea8d9b8/supreme-court.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # New Supreme Court Term Likely to Yield Conservative Victories > Sponsored content. 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Jacquelyn Martin—AP by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Oct 5, 2015 10:48 AM UTC The U.S. Supreme Court term that begins Monday is likely to produce big victories for the court’s conservatives, in contrast to last term’s liberal-leaning decisions in favor of Obamacare, same-sex marriage and the right to sue for housing discrimination. “The left side did a lot of winning last year,” says Prof. Irv Gornstein, who directs the Supreme Court Institute at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. “I would expect a return to the norm in which the right wins most of the big cases…” [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/supreme-court-term-likely-yield-conservative-victories-n437671?cid=par-time-article%5F20151005) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4061023/supreme-court-term-preview/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4061023/supreme-court-term-preview/"},"headline":"New Supreme Court Term Likely to Yield Conservative Victories","datePublished":"2015-10-05T10:48:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T11:30:23.182Z","description":"\"The left side did a lot of winning last year\"","url":"https://time.com/4061023/supreme-court-term-preview/","keywords":["Courts"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd639e04f16fcc4f4/698866d2e20a87e2fea8d9b8/supreme-court.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd639e04f16fcc4f4/698866d2e20a87e2fea8d9b8/supreme-court.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Supreme Court","caption":"Supreme Court","creditText":"Jacquelyn Martin—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/courts/","name":"Courts"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4061023/supreme-court-term-preview/","name":"New Supreme Court Term Likely to Yield Conservative Victories"}}]}] ```