US supreme court to decide cases with 'monumental' impact on democracy

[marmar]

(Guardian UK) On Monday, the nine justices of the US supreme court will take their seats at the start of a new judicial year, even as the shock waves of the panel’s previous seismic term continue to reverberate across America.

In their first full term that ended in June, the court’s new six-to-three hard-right supermajority astounded the nation by tearing up decades of settled law. They eviscerated the right to an abortion, loosened America’s already lax gun laws, erected roadblocks to combating the climate crisis, and awarded religious groups greater say in public life.

The fallout of the spate of extreme rightwing rulings has shaken public confidence in the political neutrality of the court. A Gallup poll this week found that fewer than half of US adults trust it – a drop of 20 points in just two years and the lowest rating since Gallup began recording the trend in 1972.

Justices have begun to respond to the pressure by sparring openly in public. The Wall Street Journal reported that in recent speeches the liberal justice Elena Kagan has accused her conservative peers of damaging the credibility of the court by embracing Republican causes. ................(more)

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/oct/02/us-supreme-court-cases-monumental-impact-democracy

[CousinIT]

1. US supreme court set to destroy Democracy in the United States

There, I fixed the title.

[Ninga]

2. If only the low information voters cared enough, or understood enough, that elections matter.

Am sick and nauseous at the state of political affairs in our country.

[Bettie]

3. I am wondering if they are

getting the most divisive and destructive decisions on the docket because they figure the court will be expanded and they'll lose their chance to destroy the country and it will take time to undo any damage they do.

[Bayard]

4. Maybe

Its definitely time to add a couple more seats. Wonder if they could reverse the disastrous rulings of this court?

[Bettie]

5. I think they'd have to get the cases

to come through the court system.

[czarjak]

9. Wonder no more. As long as it takes to get away with it.

[UTUSN]

6. K&R

[Duppers]

7. K & R +100

[SergeStorms]

8. If there's no political partisan divide....

in the Supreme Court as Alito maintains, then why aren't gun laws - or any of the right-wing's sacred cows - being touched?

I find that rather odd. Why is the Supreme Court only overturning Democratic social, health, and economic advancements?

Color me puzzled.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

10. We have 3 Supreme Court Justices, but the Subversive 6 render it the Extreme Court.

The bedrock of "settled law" has been blasted into dust and shards. There will be chaos and ripple effects for generations.

Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!

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