This Supreme Court Term’s Grimmest Cases Share One Thing in Common
SlateThis is part of Opening Arguments, Slate’s coverage of the start of the latest Supreme Court term. Wilson relied on the Supreme Court’s 2022 Bruen opinion, which held that modern gun restrictions are unconstitutional unless they possess a sufficient number of “historical analogues” from the 18th and 19th centuries. The same deranged boundary-pushing goes for every other 5th Circuit case that’s landed on the Supreme Court’s docket this term. Related From Slate It Turns Out John Roberts Was Right About Supreme Court Ethics Rules The devil plays a huge if unspoken role in a final 5th Circuit case that SCOTUS will almost certainly take up this term: Far-right Christian nationalists’ effort to outlaw mifepristone, the first drug in the two-drug medication abortion protocol, across all 50 states. The Supreme Court will resolve that split this term, though the writing is on the wall: A majority already froze the 5th Circuit’s wild decision, keeping the Texas law on ice.
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