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“The court adopts an approach to Section 1983 that not only undermines the statute’s core function,” she wrote, “but also stretches our doctrine beyond anything that can be justified as a matter of text, precedent or first principles.”

The project to detach rights from remedies has not yet reached its culmination. It will continue in the renewed battle over the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that looms ahead. At the end of the term, instead of deciding an important voting rights case from Louisiana that it heard in March, the court issued a surprising and opaque order setting the case for reargument at some unspecified time, with unspecified new questions to possibly be added to the case. Given that the case was fully briefed and argued, what questions might those be?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/opinion/planned-parenthood-supreme-court-decision.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Tk8.Uj2g.K3EPNct_q5At&smid=url-share

#SCOTUS #LindaGreenhouse Look at What #JohnRoberts and His Court Have Wrought Over 18 Years https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/09/opinion/supreme-court-conservative-agenda.html #democracy #CivilLiberties #healthcare #WomensRights #Justice #Equality #RightWing #ConservativeJudges #SecondAmendent #education "The Supreme Court now is this country’s ultimate political prize. That may not be apparent on a day-to-day or even a term-by-term basis. But from the perspective of 18 years, that conclusion is as unavoidable as it is frightening."