Reuters: SCOTUS "stepping on the gas" in its turn to the right...

[allegorical oracle]

According to Irv Gornstein, executive director of Georgetown University Law Center's Supreme Court Institute, Kavanaugh now wields outsized influence over the speed and limits of the court's rightward shift. Gornstein called Kavanaugh the "median justice."

He does not appear as far to the right as Justices Clarence Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch and Barrett, while Chief Justice John Roberts - an incrementalist conservative - and liberal Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson are to Kavanaugh's left.

Gornstein noted during a recent panel discussion in Washington that Kavanaugh has taken to opining on the limits of the majority's rulings. In the abortion decision, for instance, he issued a separate opinion stating that interstate travel to obtain the procedure is constitutional.

"Make no mistake, for now and for the foreseeable future, this is Justice Kavanaugh's court," Gornstein said.

The story points to the type of cases the court is taking -- potentially overturning state court decisions regarding gerrymandering and redistricting when those decisions disadvantage Repugs.

https://www.reuters.com

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Wonderful. Drunken frat boy sexual predator runs the court.

[jimfields33]

2. I don't understand this right and left business.

They should look at cases and decide what is best for the country. We never had a supreme court that was left in direction. Oh we got a few cases that when our way, but for the most part it’s always been “right direction”.

[Walleye]

3. I think they're still getting revenge for the brown versus Board of Education decision

Or defeating the confederacy. It goes back a long way. Damn Susan fucking Collins.

[Zeitghost]

5. They don't decide what is best

They decide what is legal/Constitutional.

[Model35mech]

7. SCOTUS had a liberal majority in 1969

Though it might have seemed that way...

One of the important cases was about student's rights to free speech in the classroom and armbands as political speech.

Earth shaking.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. Who is surprised by this?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

6. The Extreme Court is a threat to the nation due to the Subversive 6.

The Extreme Court ignores logic, precedent, black-letter law, the supreme law of the land -- the U.S. Constitution, and the consequences of their rulings, in order to push their extreme ideology on the country. No one from citizens to courts to lawyers can anticipate or rely upon what will come down from them next. Chaos in the entire legal system is the result and it only aids in the fascist attacks on our democracy.


Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!

THESE are the races that will determine control of the House of Representatives:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217192221

Stick 'em up for a blue wave: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217078977

[Ptah]

8. Link to article:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/after-sharp-right-turn-us-supreme-court-conservatives-step-gas-2022-09-28/