Wednesday, September 21, 2022

They overturned Roe and, amid the chaos, gutted 12 more rights and freedoms you might have missed

These 12 decisions demonstrate why the legitimacy of the court is in question. It's not "simply because people disagree with an opinion," as Chief Justice John Roberts whined earlier this month. It's because the radical, extreme majority has been dismantling core tenets of the Constitution and settled law, undermining the will of the majority of Americans, throwing out decades—even centuries—of precedent, and demonstrating that it is an existential threat to the rule of law.

The court's next term, starting in just two weeks, will feature cases that threaten LGBTQ rights, environmental safety, election integrity, affirmative action, and more. That includes Moore v. Harper, an effort by Republican legislators in North Carolina to declare themselves the sole arbiters of federal elections, putting them above the state's constitution and the state's courts. The specious and radical theory they're arguing—the "independent state legislature" theory—is based on an early 19th-century document that "is a well-known fake." In other words: fraud…
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/19/2123887/-They-overturned-Roe-and-in-the-chaos-gutted-12-more-rights-and-freedoms-you-might-have-missed


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