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Hi,
The Supreme Court’s extreme right-wing majority has issued the worst of its spring term decisions, and they are devastating to human rights.1
The justices obliterated the federal right to abortion access, gutting Roe v. Wade after assuring senators they wouldn’t and robbing bodily autonomy from millions of women.
They gave guns more constitutional rights than kids, in the wake of Uvalde and other tragic mass shootings. They—just today—erased the line between church and state by protecting enforced prayer in public schools.
And Justice Clarence Thomas urged the court to go even further and eliminate LGBT rights and access to birth control, even as his wife faces the January 6 committee for conspiring with the Trump camp to steal the 2020 election.2
This is the most radically extremist and corrupt court we’ve seen in generations—horribly out of control and wildly out of step with the American people. And little wonder: Five were appointed by a president who lost the popular vote and confirmed by senators representing a minority of the population.3
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The extreme right wing worked for 50 years to seize control of the nation’s highest court. Once they succeeded, they wasted no time enacting a radically conservative agenda—blatantly ignoring precedent, public opinion, and even the court's own norms and procedures.
The leak of the Roe v. Wade opinion—solidifying the end to a constitutional right to abortion—was virtually unheard of, and this court’s frequent use of the "shadow docket" to dispense with constitutional rights has been chilling.
Despite how fervently recent nominees assured senators during their confirmation hearings that they would respect court precedent, the court has summarily tossed decisions, old and new. In one jaw-dropping case, the court overturned a 2012 precedent in order to rule that innocence isn’t sufficient cause to free someone from death row.4
This is just the beginning. Access to birth control, same-sex and interracial marriage, voting rights, our very democracy—all of it is at risk unless we rein in these out-of-control, extremist right-wing justices.
The court’s size is not prescribed in the Constitution, and Congress has changed it seven times before with simple legislation.5 That’s why we must demand it do so again by adding at least four seats. Demand Progress has mobilized people to send more than 200,000 messages this year alone calling on Congress to expand the Supreme Court. We need your help to keep up the pressure.
Thanks for standing with us,
Robert and the team at Demand Progress
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Sources:
1. USA Today, "Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, eliminating constitutional right to abortion," June 24, 2022.
2. NPR, "Jan. 6 committee asks Ginni Thomas, wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, to testify," June 16, 2022.
3. Tweet by Rep. Pramila Jayapal, June 23, 2022.
4. The Intercept, "Supreme Court guts its own precedent to allow Arizona to kill Barry Jones," May 28, 2022.
5. Demand Justice, "Reform the Supreme Court," accessed June 24, 2022.
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