You recently wrote a very comprehensive article for wax called the case against the supreme court of the united states. Given what you've just said, that the court has ruled in a way that the majority of americans would disagree with, go ahead and make the case against it. Well, gust let me start with the case against this particular court. You know, the justices yoare sitting right now. They have blessed partisan jerry mandering. The conservative majority said federal courts cannot take up the issue of policing partisan jerrymandering. Wll they're returning it to a rigged democratic process. If there were a referendum on abortion, i am fairly confident that the prochoice side is going
The Supreme Court overturned a 49-year-old precedent that secured the right to an abortion. Irin Carmon from New York magazine breaks down the case and Vox’s Ian Millhiser argues the Supreme Court is undermining democracy.
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