The Supreme Court begins its new term Monday with voting and election cases at the forefront.

Among the cases being considered by the justices are ones on the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, an appeal that could impact how elections for Congress and the presidency are conducted by giving more power to state legislatures and less to state courts and colleges taking into account race in admissions decisions, according to the Associated Press.

The nine-member court begins its fall term with surveys showing it having less of the public’s confidence after its spring term, in which the court’s conservative-leaning majority overturned the Roe v. Wade case that ended decades of federal protections for abortion – but not before a draft opinion on the decision was leaked to the news media.