The Costs of America’s Renegade Judiciary
After a term in which the US Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional protection for abortion and issued a raft of other politically motivated rulings, confidence in the institution has sunk to an unprecedented low. This is all the more worrying at a time of authoritarian attacks on human rights and democracy around the world.
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NEW YORK – In its most recent term, the US Supreme Court issued significant and controversial rulings on abortion rights, gun safety, climate, immigration, and church-state separation. Beyond the shock of the decisions, the majority’s aggressive tone and overt embrace of ideological theories well outside the judicial mainstream has raised alarm bells.