The U.S. Supreme Court made big decisions this week and more are coming. Here's what you need to know

Already this week the justices have released important decisions on other issues including affirmative action, voting rights and religious rights. The court's final opinions tend to be on some of the most contentious issues because writing those decisions often takes the longest.The justices have yet to decide the fate of President Joe Biden's plan to wipe away or reduce student loans held by millions of Americans.

State law requires businesses that are open to the public to provide services to all customers, but the designer, Lorie Smith, says the law violates her free speech rights. She says ruling against her would force artists — from painters and photographers to writers and musicians — to do work that is against their beliefs.

Now, however, with a six-justice conservative majority, the justices overturned admissions plans at Harvard and the University of North Carolina, the nation's oldest private and public colleges, respectively. The court made clear that businesses must cite more than minor costs — so-called "de minimis" costs — to reject requests for religious accommodations at work. Unlike most cases before the court, both sides in the case had agreed businesses needed to show more.

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