4 Supreme Court decisions that have quietly jumpstarted Project 2025

Project 2025, Donald Trump’s authoritarian playbook on Christian nationalism, is already in motion. A compromised Supreme Court advances Project 2025’s agenda While many pundits have acknowledged the implausibility of Trump’s “lack of knowledge ” about Project 2025, few have noted that the Supreme Court has already begun to implement its key objectives: Bribery: SCOTUS implemented Project 2025’s deference to a strong chief executive in Snyder v. the United States. Weakening federal regulations: The Supreme Court continued implementing Project 2025’s goal of killing the administrative state and stopping “the war on oil and gas ” in Loper Bright Enterprises vs. Raimondo. Advancing Christian nationalism: The Supreme Court helped advance Project 2025’s Christian nationalism in 303 Creative LLC and Kennedy v. Bremerton School District. In overturning Roe v. Wade after 50 years of protected abortion access, Justice Samuel Alito summarily declared that the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause could no longer protect women’s medical privacy because the Supreme Court previously determined “that a State’s regulation of abortion is not a sex-based classification.” After Roe deemed abortion access a “liberty” protected by the Due Process and Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, Alito and his Catholic colleagues ruled that “classification precedent” and ancient common law history were more important.