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Fellow law nerds! The time has come to bid adieu to another Supreme Court term.

From Amy Coney Barrett’s first time hearing oral arguments to the announcement that SCOTUS would be taking up the most consequential abortion case in decades, it was a doozy.

🧵To mark this momentous occasion, here's a look back at some of our best coverage of this SCOTUS term:

Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation seems but a distant memory at this point, but if there’s one thing about the ignominious justice, it’s that she was out of line from day one.

@Hegemommy and @AngryBlackLady said so in this episode of Boom! Lawyered:

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And of course we would have been remiss if we didn’t offer up a solution for a vacant Supreme Court seat:

Putting @AngryBlackLady on the bench, you cowards! rewirenewsgroup.com/multimedia/pod…

Still, even in the hellscape of a Barrett nomination there were small victories—like the first person tell an abortion story at a Supreme Court nomination hearing: rewirenewsgroup.com/article/2020/1…

It’s an open secret that Justice Barrett despises abortion.

@ms_creilly and @JA_Davids took a look at how Barrett’s views on reproductive choice could also impact infertility care: rewirenewsgroup.com/article/2020/1…

But Justice Barrett wasn’t the only thorn in our legal sides.

The Court granted an order protecting holiday parties in the middle of a global pandemic because... religion??

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There were some surprises, like when Justice Brett Kavanaugh signaled he’d vote to protect the Affordable Care Act.

More on that from @Hegemommy: rewirenewsgroup.com/article/2020/1…

Then there were some predictable but gutting losses, like the Supreme Court’s decision to allow religiously affiliated adoption and foster care services to discriminate against LGBTQ families: rewirenewsgroup.com/multimedia/pod…

There were cheerleaders and their First Amendment right (which the Court affirmed) to swear on social media: rewirenewsgroup.com/multimedia/pod…

And after conferencing on it approximately 600 times, the Supreme Court announced they would hear Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization—the most consequential abortion case in decades. rewirenewsgroup.com/article/2021/0…

As your one-stop-shop for all things abortion and the law, we can tell you this case is everything we feared and everything we’ve been preparing for.

@AngryBlackLady wrote about how we got here: rewirenewsgroup.com/ablc/2021/05/2…

Finally, this Supreme Court season, we remembered the life and career of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Our legal fellow @ms_creilly shared what Ginsburg's legacy meant to her as a sick woman in law school: rewirenewsgroup.com/article/2021/0…

And @AngryBlackLady gave us a trenchant and always timely warning: We should have listened to Ginsburg when she warned about the erosion of reproductive rights and voting rights.

With the Court deciding to gut voting rights, it’s clear she was right: rewirenewsgroup.com/ablc/2021/03/1…

We'll be closing out the Supreme Court term with @Hegemommy and @AngryBlackLady on a new episode of Boom! Lawyered this week. Stay tuned!🎙️