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The Supreme Court dropped a bombshell on the environment in its session’s last day on Thursday.
The extremist right-wing majority decided that the Environmental Protection Agency has no authority to shift energy production away from coal to cleaner methods—hamstringing the EPA’s ability to rein in climate change.1
And perhaps even worse, the Court agreed to hear a case on gerrymandering next session that has the potential to give state legislatures near limitless power to decide the winners of elections.2
The Supreme Court is on a runaway power grab, and the best way to stop it is to take away the extremist majority. Congress must add seats to the Supreme Court.
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This Supreme Court session was the worst in a generation. The right to abortion, gone. States’ rights to limit guns in public, gone. Their decisions on abortion, guns, the separation of church and state, and the climate crisis are some of the most destructive this court has ever produced.3
This rogue Court is taking laws that took decades to establish and wiping them out one by one, just because they disagree with their ideology.
And the decision to hear Moore v. Harper next term is terrifying. The case asks the Court to overrule North Carolina’s Supreme Court, which determined that the state legislature’s extreme gerrymandering violated voter rights.
If the Court sides with the NC legislature’s request, state legislative bodies across the country will be impervious to independent election boards and even the governor, and they may be able to toss out whatever votes they don’t like.4 The fact that the Court even agreed to hear the case is a disastrous sign.
The Constitution specifically designed our government so that one single body would not have this kind of power, and it’s time for Congress to do its duty and rein in this rogue Court. There is widespread public outrage over the Supreme Court’s recent decisions, and we’ve collected more than 200,000 signatures demanding that Congress expand the Court. We need to take advantage of that momentum.
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Sources:
1. Vox, "The Supreme Court’s big EPA decision is a massive power grab by the justices," June 30, 2022.
2. Slate, "Why Today Felt Like the Most Hopeless Day of the SCOTUS Term," June 30, 2022.
3. Slate, "Why Today Felt Like the Most Hopeless Day of the SCOTUS Term," June 30, 2022.
4. Slate, "Why Today Felt Like the Most Hopeless Day of the SCOTUS Term," June 30, 2022.
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