Friends, we can hardly believe it, but we’re almost done with June. 

That means the Supreme Court has just one week left to dole out its final opinions of the term — and we’re expecting the next ones in just one hour. 

We’re still waiting to hear how the Court will rule in 14 cases — including ones with major implications for affirmative action policies, LGBTQ rights, student loan debt forgiveness, and the future of our democracy.

The Court is supposed to work for us. But, as we wait in anxious anticipation for its conservative majority to rule on our basic rights and freedoms, one thing is abundantly clear: the American people do not support the right-wing supermajority’s regressive vision for our country. In fact, poll after poll proves just how unpopular its extreme right-wing agenda is. Let’s take a look. 

A strong majority of Americans — 63% — believe the Court should not bar higher education institutions from considering race in their admissions processes.¹ 

Despite this, the Supreme Court’s conservative justices are poised to strike down the use of affirmative action for public and private institutions in a pair of cases, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admission v. University of North Carolina, this term.

As many as 80% of Americans support laws barring discrimination against LGBTQ+ people in employment, housing, and public accommodations.² And still, in 303 Creative v. Elenis, the Court is threatening a state law protecting LGBTQ people and other protected groups and could make it easier for businesses to discriminate.

And of course, student loans. Despite the plan being broadly popular with Americans (with at least 60% support) — not a big surprise, given the tens of millions of Americans struggling under the weight of student loan debt — the Supreme Court appears ready to strike down the Biden administration’s student debt relief program in Biden v. Nebraska and Dept. of Education v. Brown.³

The program would help as many as 43 million student borrowers. Yet the right-wing justices — each of whom paid just a fraction of what today’s tuition costs for their own elite college degrees — are the ones who will get to decide whether those Americans get the help they so badly need.

As the Court trends further and further to the right, it grows more and more out of touch with the American public. This is where we need your help to rein in this rogue right-wing Court.

We shouldn’t have to live in fear at the start of each summer, worrying which of our rights this out-of-control Court wants to gut, roll back, and overturn. The justices are supposed to serve us, not push a right-wing agenda. That’s not a functioning democracy.

If we don’t intervene, we won’t see power shift from the hands of the right-wing partisans currently in charge until 2065. We don’t have that time to waste. Will you help us by supporting the fight to expand the Supreme Court today?

Thank you for all you do.

Sarah, Alexa, Chelsey and the Take Back the Court Action Fund team

References:

1. Char Adams, "Majority of Americans favor affirmative action in colleges as Supreme Court seems poised to end it, poll says," CBS News, May 31, 2023.

2. Alison Durkee "Here’s How Americans Really Feel About LGBTQ Issues," Forbes, June 3, 2023.

3. Alex Samuels, "Americans Like Biden’s Student Debt Forgiveness Plan. The Supreme Court … Not So Much," FiveThirtyEight, March 3, 2023.