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BY Alex Henderson, AlterNet
Published October 03, 2022
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For generations, the U.S. Supreme Court expanded or upheld civil liberties, from freedom of the press in New York Times v. Sullivan (1964) to access to contraception in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) and Eisenstadt v. Baird (1972) to gay rights in Lawrence v. Texas (2003) and Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) to interracial marriage in Loving v. Virginia (1967). But when the Dobbs v. Jackson Womens Health Organization ruling was handed down on June 24 and Roe v. Wade was overturned after 49 years, the High Courts radical-right majority demonstrated that it had no problem rejecting precedent and rolling back civil liberties.
Moreover, Justice Clarence Thomas, in Dobbs, recommended that the High Court also reconsider Griswold, Lawrence and Obergefell. Civil libertarians fear that with socially conservative justices having attacked abortion rights, everything from gay rights to contraception is also in danger.
Over the years, there has been much discussion in law schools of the role the Court has played in expanding rights, but now that the Court is rolling rights back, how are law schools responding? Journalist Mark Joseph Stern tackles that subject in an article published by Slate on October 2.
https://www.rawstory.com/shaken-law-professors-revolt-as-hyper-partisan-scotus-rulings-upend-constitutional-principles/
Federalist Society POS.....should never be allowed to sit on a bench
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(2,563 posts)Its hard to think about your own professionthe things you were taught, the things you believed inabruptly coming to an end in rapid succession, said Tiffany Jeffers, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center. Its hard to ask a law professor to dismantle all the training they had. Its a difficult, emotional, psychological transformation process. Its not easy to upend your lifes work and not trust the Supreme Court.
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(13,104 posts)Johnny2X2X
(19,061 posts)People whose views are far far outside of 80% of America. They have no respect for the law, these 5 are rogues that want to remake the country for political reasons. And it's going to get much much worse.
SWBTATTReg
(22,114 posts)to single-handedly wipe away what our legislators voted in (and we in turn voted for them).
Do away w/ the Supreme Court and have instead, a far more robust body of judges (already there in place, at the bench), such as perhaps 1 or 2 per state, and use this entire body to judge pro or con, those laws coming up for review. Don't let this small body (six partisan hacks out of of nine) rule/judge us, what is what they are effectively doing now.