8 Supreme Court Cases To Watch This Fall (And After)

In assembling its October docket, the Supreme Court’s right-wing supermajority has once again given itself the opportunity to roll back our rights and freedoms and undermine our democracy — all while grabbing more power for itself.

In the context of snowballing ethics scandals, the right-wing justices have made clear that they view themselves as an untouchable panel of overlords operating above the checks and balances of American democracy. That self-conception also permeates the illegitimate supermajority’s jurisprudence, where it is increasingly brazen about discarding precedent and the rule of law in favor of its own policy preferences. In this memo, we examine the stakes of some of the term’s biggest cases.

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