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Supreme Court’s New Term Plans to Pick Up the Coup Where It Left Off
Republicans soon won’t need to win elections, they will just need decisions from the top court
It’s really just a matter of time these days. Whatever the Republicans can’t win at the ballot box, they can win in the courts. Patience must become their virtue and then they can enjoy the sweet taste of complete and total societal change.
After turning the month of June into one of the most bruising ones in history to the body of our democracy, the Supreme Court has commenced its next term this week.
If we thought the issues they actively decided on in June were hot topics, just wait until you see what is on the Playbill for the fall, winter, and spring.
The new term will feature major disputes on affirmative action, voting, religion, free speech, and gay rights. And the court’s six-justice conservative supermajority seems poised to dominate the new term as it did the earlier one (Poised to Resume Rightward Push).
Can we all let out a collective “yikes?”
I am trying not to be too alarmist. There is just so much going on in the world these days that it’s hard to get all fired up about the decisions this court hasn’t yet made.
