The Supreme Court's Redistribution of Rights

Allison Gill

I of course recognize the horrors that can be found in the first 221 years of the high court, but let’s just think about the damage done in the more recent past. In 2010, Citizens united guaranteed protections for dark money in politics, allowing them to maintain their conservative majority through minority rule.

Then in 2013 they gutted the voting rights act, effectively ending the pre-clearance requirement for states and localities with a history of racially discriminatory voter suppression to submit changes in election law to the Department of Justice. That shored up their stranglehold on power. They decimated what remained of the Voting Rights Act in 2021 when they gutted Section 2 in Brnovich which effectively requires officials to admit they’re being racist when they dream up laws that restrict voting. Now they can simply say they’re “preventing fraud” to avoid the scrutiny of the Voting Rights Act.

Then in June 2016, they - effectively rendered bribery laws against elected officials useless by requiring explicit quid pro quos. Not to mention the fact they ruled that bribes accepted after the fact are actually gratuities - ensuring they themselves couldn’t be held accountable for all the dark money they were paid to render favorable decisions to the rich and politically well-connected.

Then the Supreme Court took our bodily autonomy in 2022, implying that the right to privacy doesn’t exist - the implied silent protection of the Constitution upon which the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment rely.

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