The Agenda: How a Republican Supreme Court is Reshaping America

Synopsis

WHAT WILL A CONSERVATIVE SUPREME COURT DO WITH ITS POWER? From 2011, when Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives, until the present, Congress enacted hardly any major legislation outside of the tax law President Trump signed in 2017. In the same period, the Supreme Court dismantled much of America's campaign finance law, severely weakened the Voting Rights Act, permitted states to opt-out of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion, eroded laws protecting against age discrimination and sexual and racial harassment, and held that every state must permit same-sex couples to marry. This powerful unelected body, now controlled by six very conservative Republicans, has and will become the locus of policymaking in the U.S. Ian Millhiser, Vox's Supreme Court correspondent, tells the story of what those six justices are likely to do with their power. It is true that the right to abortion is in its final days, as is affirmative action. But Millhiser shows that it is in the most arcane decisions that the Court will fundamentally reshape America, transforming it into something far less democratic, by attacking voting rights, stripping power from agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Labor, granting vast legal exemptions to religious conservatives, and putting corporations above the law. The Agenda exposes a radically altered Supreme Court whose powers extend far beyond transforming any individual right--its agenda is to shape the very nature of America's government, redefining who gets to have legal rights, who is beyond the reach of the law, and who chooses the people who make our laws. IAN MILLHISER is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he focuses on the Supreme Court. Formerly he was a columnist at ThinkProgress. He is the author of Injustices: The Supreme Court's History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted, and his writings have appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, and the Yale Law & Policy Review. He received his J.D. from Duke University and clerked for Judge Eric L. Clay of the Sixth Circuit.

Copyright:

2021

Book Details

Book Quality:

Excellent

Book Size:

144 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781734420760

Publisher:

Columbia Global Reports

Date of Addition:

01/17/22

Copyrighted By:

Ian Millhiser

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No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Politics and Government

Submitted By:

Terry Gorman

Proofread By:

Terry Gorman

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