'We do not have to simply accept the devastation of these rulings,' said RepJayapal. 'Congress has an obligation to respond, and do so quickly.'
reactionary majority spent its latest term carrying out an assault on fundamental constitutional rights, Rep. Pramila Jayapal on Tuesday reiterated House progressives' demands to reform the nation's chief judicial body, including by adding seats."Last week, the Supreme Court finished one of the most consequential and destructive terms in recent decades," Jayapal , chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said in a.
As Jayapal noted, the high court attacked the separation of church and state, legal protections in the 100-mile border zone, the rights of death row inmates, state-level concealed carry laws, Miranda rights, the authority of federal agencies to safeguard public health and the environment, and the constitutional right to abortion.
"The court denied Social Security benefits to the residents of Puerto Rico, blocked a federal vaccine-or-test requirement, denied detained immigrants bond hearings, undermined tribal sovereignty, allowed the CIA to withhold information about torture at black sites, and entrenched Louisiana's racially gerrymandered electoral maps," Jayapal continued. that could weaken our electoral process, allow discrimination against same-sex couples, and end affirmative action.
The court's majority"has made clear it has no concern for ethics," said Jayapal."There is evidence that a sitting justice's wife was involved in efforts to overturn a free and fair presidential election, and when legal challenges on that very issue came before the court, the justice did not recuse himself," she pointed out, referring to Clarence and Ginni Thomas.
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