The cheating Court

One weird thing about the recent Supreme Court decision which makes it legal to discriminate against gay people, is the fact that the case is based on a purely hypothetical situation. More ...

The Supreme Court Doesn’t Care That the Gay Wedding Website Case Is Based on Fiction

If the Supreme Court persists in making rulings based on fiction, how can we take any ruling seriously?

Certainly, this is not a sentiment uniquely inspired by or limited to the opinions the court has issued in its latest term, which ended today with rulings on anti-discrimination law and student debt relief. One of the cases handed down today was brought by a Christian website designer who wants to reject the business of same-sex couples who have in fact never sought her services and may have been invented, while the other involved a student loan debt servicer as an unwilling plaintiff in an effort to end President Biden’s student debt forgiveness program. Just these two cases alone should be enough to throw the court’s legitimacy into question—but they join a long line of recent rulings based on shaky (at best) claims and pure wish fulfillment of the militant Christian right.

Still, it feels unnerving to some, even those caught in the crossfire, to see injuries invented wholesale and lies accepted by the highest court in the land; to see rights so openly trampled on the flimsiest of pretense ...

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The Christian Right has finally achieved the Supreme Court it always wanted. They will continue to bring cases that would never normally have been heard, much less have won, to their extremist Court . They will target every issue they obsess about. I expect cases to be brought soon to overturn the right to contraception and tto overturn he right to marriage for LGBTQ people. The Right want sto drag America back to the 50s ... I was there, and it wasn't a good place for anyone who wasn't white, Christian, straight, and male.

Joe Biden doesn't want to expand the Court, but why not? Americans' opinion of the Court is at rock bottom, and Republicans are going to do their worst no matter what Democrats do. We have to fix this problem while we can, before there is nothing left to save.