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Statement of MoveOn Executive Director Rahna Epting on the Supreme Court ruling on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health

September 23, 2022 director, executive, Jackson, health, Women's, Statement, MoveOn, Rahna, Court, Epting, ruling, Dobbs, Supreme0 comment

We won’t go back, but we will overturn the GOP. “Today, the Supreme Court decimated nearly 50 years worth of progress and for the first time in generations stripped us of our rights, freedoms, and control over our bodies. It is an outrageous and dangerous ruling which proves this court is nothing more than an arm of the Republican Party. Let’s be clear: Six justices did not overturn Roe; the entire Republican Party did. It makes the extremism of the modern-day Republican Party bare for all to see. “We are…

Supreme Court Hands Short-Term Win to Pride Group, but Encourages Yeshiva University to Return

September 15, 2022 'Return, University, pride, hands, encourages, Yeshiva, Court, Supreme, group, shortterm0 comment

Another conflict is brewing between the constitutional right to freely exercise religion and the civil right to be free from discrimination. Like several such cases in recent years, the Supreme Court is likely—or so we hope—to decide this one favorably in the end. Yeshiva University, located in New York City, includes America’s largest Jewish undergraduate institution. Yeshiva advocates living in accordance with “Torah values,” including opposition to sexual relations between members of the same sex. Yeshiva denied the application of the YU Pride Alliance, a group opposed to and hoping…

5 Monumental Cases That Highlighted the Supreme Court’s 2021-2022 Term

July 5, 2022 term, courts, Cases, Monumental, Highlighted, 20212022, Supreme0 comment

The Supreme Court has just finished what will likely go down as one of the most momentous and memorable terms in history. In addition to the court deciding many blockbuster cases from abortion to the limits of the power of the federal bureaucracy, Justice Stephen Breyer retired, now-Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in to replace him, there was an unprecedented leak of a draft opinion, protesters showed up at justices’ homes in several attempts to intimidate them, and an armed man made a serious threat to one of the…

Supreme Court Unwisely Lets Biden End Program Making Illegal Aliens Remain in Mexico

July 1, 2022 Supreme, Mexico, Let's, Program, illegal, remain, Aliens, Making, Unwisely, Court, Biden0 comment

As the U.S. southern border is being overrun with record numbers of illegal aliens month after month, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday approved the Biden administration’s termination of the successful Remain in Mexico program in a 5-4 decision by Chief Justice John Roberts and joined by Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Brett Kavanaugh. The decision will further aggravate a dire border crisis, created by the administration’s open-border policies. The Remain in Mexico program (formally known as the Migration Protection Protocols) was implemented by the Trump administration…

From Football Field to Supreme Court: Meet the Coach Who’s Fighting for Freedom to Pray

April 24, 2022 Field, freedom, Fighting, Who's, Pray, Football, Coach, Court, Supreme, from, Meet0 comment

BREMERTON, Washington—It’s the final play of coach Joe Kennedy’s seven-year legal battle. The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Monday in Kennedy’s case, and ultimately decide whether a public school employee is allowed to participate in silent prayer in view of students while on the clock. “The only thing I’m asking the Supreme Court is that I get to be a coach, and I get to thank God afterwards,” Kennedy says. In 2015, Kennedy lost his job as an assistant football coach at a high school in Washington state after…

The Supreme Court’s ‘Dead Hand’

February 11, 2022 Dead, Supreme, courts, hand0 comment

The Supreme Court has set itself on a collision course with the forces of change in an inexorably diversifying America. The six Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices have been nominated and confirmed by GOP presidents and senators representing the voters least exposed, and often most hostile, to the demographic and cultural changes remaking 21st-century American life. Now the GOP Court majority is moving at an accelerating pace to impose that coalition’s preferences on issues such as abortion, voting rights, and affirmative action. On all of these fronts, and others, the Republican…