The Supreme Court just heard a case that could toss out what’s left of the Voting Rights Act. On Monday, it weighed whether to gut the Clean Water Act. Soon it will hear a case that could allow Republican state legislatures to throw out the results of the 2024 election and hand their electoral votes to Donald Trump.
This comes after a session in which the court overturned Roe v. Wade, kneecapped the EPA’s ability to combat the climate crisis, and shredded the wall separating church and state.
Yet as the right-wing majority in the Supreme Court pushes its political agenda without the slightest regard for precedent, most media coverage still portrays the court as a sacred temple of apolitical jurisprudence — and treats this slow-moving judicial coup as unstoppable.
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If you thought the last Supreme Court term was a nightmare, wait till you see what they have planned for the session that began this week.
On the latest docket is whether states can dilute the power of Black voters with racial gerrymandering. If the Clean Water Act should protect wetlands and streams. Allowing business owners to deny services to LGBTQ+ people. Banning any consideration of race and diversity in college admissions.
Perhaps most terrifying, the court will rule on the “independent state legislature theory,” the fringe notion that state legislatures have unchecked authority to conduct elections and enact voting rules however they see fit.
This radical surge is the result of a decadeslong, massively funded campaign, supported by some of the most well-known corporate brands. For instance, as The Intercept reported last week, Amazon, Facebook, and Google are all funders of the Independent Women’s Forum, a group that for decades has lobbied in support of anti-abortion judges.
This is what sets The Intercept’s Supreme Court coverage apart. While the corporate media covers all these cases like sport, The Intercept digs deeper. We’re investigating and exposing the ultra-wealthy behind the right-wing takeover of the court. And we won’t report on the court without the context that it can be expanded with a simple act of Congress.
