The US Supreme Court opens its new term under the shadow of a presidential election that threatens to create fresh strains at a court already deeply enmeshed in the nation’s political divisions.

New court papers in Donald Trump’s federal 2020 election interference case pull back the curtain on his conversations with family members, former Vice President Mike Pence and other close advisers in the weeks leading up to the attack on the U.

The Supreme Court is back for another term as Election Day approaches, raising the question of whether the Republican-appointed majority will get involved.