Every June, Americans with an interest in law and politics anticipate the annual flood of Supreme Court decisions on cases heard months before. For those who care about democracy and human rights, it’s been less a matter of anticipation in recent years than bracing ourselves for bad news.
This June was particularly difficult, as the politicised Roberts Court abolished the federal right to abortion care by overturning Roe v Wade, a legal precedent protecting women’s and privacy rights that had stood for nearly 50 years.
Unfortunately, next year looks to be just as brutal, as right-wing Christians are hard at work filing “religious freedom” cases that will grant them wide latitude to discriminate against members of the LGBTQ+ community.
