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There’s one thing actually disconcerting concerning the begin of this Supreme Court docket time period. It’s not simply that the Court docket has solely taken a handful of circumstances up to now, or that there’s another big abortion fight brewing.
It’s that the Roberts Court docket is so clearly and transparently compromised by corruption and, apparently, the remainder of the nation is meant to hold on as if that is enterprise as ordinary.
My colleague Imani Gandy and I made this level final week within the return of our podcast Boom! Lawyered. The Supreme Court docket has at all times been partisan, however it’s by no means been this politicized. And whereas the overt politicization of the Court docket didn’t begin with overturning abortion rights in Dobbs v. Jackson Ladies’s Well being Groupit has been accelerated ever since.
We don’t must look any additional than United States v. Rahimia case the Court docket will think about in November over a problem to a Texas legislation that bans home abusers from possessing firearms. Final yr, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court docket of Appeals struck down that ban, setting the stage for upending a bunch of affordable firearms laws, with Trump Choose James Ho citing the Dobbs decision in his concurring opinion to justify doing so.
The Dobbs determination helps the conservative authorized motion in its quest to redefine who will get to be a full particular person in our society and who doesn’t. This can be a theme we’ll return to repeatedly this yr at Rewire Information Group and on Increase! Lawyered as a result of fairly frankly, the stakes are that prime.
This Supreme Court docket time period, which kicks off Monday, may reset these definitions in troubling methods, with circumstances that might strike main blows to incapacity rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and naturally, additional devastate abortion entry.
Buckle up people, we’re in for one more wild time period. Proceed following this area as I deliver you evaluation of what all of it means for our rights.
