Linda Greenhouse: "The Supreme Court, Weaponized"
"With the accuracy of a drone strike, the three justices appointed by President Donald Trump and strong-armed through to confirmation by Senator Mitch McConnell... are doing exactly what they were sent to the court to do." 1/5
"With the accuracy of a drone strike, the three justices appointed by President Donald Trump and strong-armed through to confirmation by Senator Mitch McConnell... are doing exactly what they were sent to the court to do." 1/5
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"The resulting path of destruction of settled precedent and long-established norms is breathtaking".
Pregnant women are now "fleeing to seek care in numbers that are destabilizing the abortion infrastructure in states hundreds of miles from the Texas border". 2/
Pregnant women are now "fleeing to seek care in numbers that are destabilizing the abortion infrastructure in states hundreds of miles from the Texas border". 2/
The latest arguments suggest "that the court will expand" gun rights "well beyond the 2008 Heller decision" - and that "a decades-old understanding about the extent to which religious schools can lay claim to taxpayer support is similarly about to be shattered". 3/
Affirmative action might be next, with "the votes to put an end to race consciousness in university admissions" in place.
"[W]ithin months of... Barrett’s confirmation" the "New York gun case, the Mississippi abortion case and the religion case from Maine", were ready. 4/
"[W]ithin months of... Barrett’s confirmation" the "New York gun case, the Mississippi abortion case and the religion case from Maine", were ready. 4/
"Of course times change, and courts change with them... Yet over history, change has tended to come to the Supreme Court incrementally. In the Trump years, it arrived in a torrent." 5/5
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