WASHINGTON DC – The US Supreme Court has handed down a host of decisions over the past seven days. A majority of justices made it easier to carry a concealed weapon; harder to get an abortion; easier to gerrymander on racial lines; and harder to maintain the sovereignty of native American lands. All of these decisions paint a picture of the Supreme Court as it is now: far to the right, and aggressively asserting its power and its politics.
But it was Monday’s case (27 June), Kennedy vs Bremerton School District, that most explicitly reveals the project of this court.
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