The Agenda (eBook)

How a Republican Supreme Court is Reshaping America

Ian Millhiser (Autor)

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2021
Columbia Global Reports (Verlag)
978-1-7344207-7-7 (ISBN)

Infos

What a conservative Supreme Court is doing with its powerFrom 2011, when Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives, until the pandemic made inaction untenable, Congress enacted hardly any major legislation outside of the tax law President Trump signed in 2017. In the same period, the Supreme Court dismantled much of Americas campaign finance law, severely weakened the Voting Rights Act, permitted states to opt-out of the Affordable Care Acts Medicaid expansion, weakened laws protecting against age discrimination and sexual and racial harassment, and held that every state must permit same-sex couples to marry. This powerful unelected body, now controlled by six very conservative Republicans, has and will become the locus of policymaking in the United States.Ian Millhiser, Voxs Supreme Court correspondent, tells the story of what those six justices are doing with their power. The right to abortion is over, and affirmative action will soon be unlawful. But Millhiser shows that it is in the most arcane decisions that the Court will fundamentally reshape America, transforming it into something far less democratic, by attacking voting rights, dismantling and vetoing the federal administrative state, ignoring the separation of church and state, and putting corporations above the law. The Agenda exposes a radically altered Supreme Court whose powers extend far beyond transforming any individual rightits agenda is to shape the very nature of Americas government, redefining who gets to have legal rights, who is beyond the reach of the law, and who chooses the people who make our laws.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.3.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Abortion • Affordable Care Act • anti-abortion • Chief Justice of Supreme Court • Church and State • Civil Rights • climate change • Discrimination • enironment • Environmental Protection Agency • gay marriage • Gerrymander • Healthcare • labor department • labor rights • Medicaid • Pro-choice • Religious Right • Religous • Reproductive • Reproductive rights • republican control • Republican control of Supreme Court • republican court • Republican majority in Supreme Court • reshaping the Supreme court • right to abortion • Right to Vote • Roe v. Wade • same-sex • Same-Sex Marriage • SB 8 • Scotus • Supreme Court power • texas abortion • threat to democracy • Trump appointed Justices • Trump Supreme Court • Voting • Voting rights • Voting Rights Act • who makes our laws • womens health
• ISBN-10: 1-7344207-7-4 / 1734420774
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7344207-7-7 / 9781734420777