Thread by @monaeltahawy

"While the case received little attention outside of the legal world, it marked the culmination of more than 30 years of legal strategy by Christian conservatives who have sought ever-broader leeway to flout the law."
truthout.org/articles/the-c…

Just as Trump was not an aberration, but rather a fruition of decades of white supremacist, misogynist, bigoted rot, so too is the conservative dominance of the Supreme Court, which conservatives have worked for since the early 1970s. feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney…

I moved to U.S. in 2000. I've learned that many white Americans have delusional amount of confidence in their govt & its institutions. That stubborn belief in U.S. exceptionalism undergirds the refusal to see the fascism that Trump brought.

And so no matter how often those of us from authoritarian countries who know to be suspicious of state power, and those of us who have fought fascism--be it via military religious fundamentalists--warned, white Americans arrogantly shook their head that it couldn’t happen here.

So successful has white supremacist patriarchy been at saying "you're lucky to live in the U.S. and not Saudi Arabia or Iran," that so many did not pay enough attention to the theocracy that white supremacy was building right here at home. feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney…

"Lost in the weeds was a legal bomb. The Court had, in effect, ruled that if a government made any exception to a rule — like allowing people to grocery shop in a pandemic — it had to make an exception for religious activities." truthout.org/articles/the-c…

"In other words, the justices had elevated religion above just about every other right, including free speech and racial equality, according to a report by Columbia Law School’s Law, Rights and Religion Project." 👇🏽

lawrightsreligion.law.columbia.edu/content/we-the…

“Under this broad conception of religious liberty, policymakers could be constitutionally required to exempt religious adherents from regulations enacted to protect labor and workers’ rights, public health, civil rights, and other critical policy goals.”