The Supreme Court v. The People
This is the battle that will define the next generation: Can any progressive policy change happen with the current Supreme Court?
If the midterms solidified anything, it’s this:
The Supreme Court is a vehicle for how the white supremacist project of dominance—the relegation of women and other potential pregnant people to second-class citizenship and erasure of marginalized people—will be implemented.
In a new episode of Boom! Lawyered, Jess and Imani get deep into how the election showed we’re in a battle between the democratic will of the voters and a captured federal judiciary that is intent on imposing its own white Christian vision of the United States.
And yes, while we learned that when abortion is on the ballot, abortion wins, it means the anti-abortion movement will work even harder to keep abortion off the ballot moving forward.
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