Crash Course: Today's Supreme Court is a threat to democracy — but activists plan to fight back

After Dobbs, many Americans woke up to the Roberts court's dangerous power. But history offers lessons — and hope [View in browser](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnyDzaP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvbmZmMzhncWcwZS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWVlNW9vNDB3dnlXA3NwY0IKZeLbt-Vlwym791IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) Your daily update from [Salon](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnyDzaP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvZ3JyajAzMmd6aS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWVlNW9vNDB3dnkmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZeLbt-Vlwym791IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). ~/AASU4wA~/RgRnyDzaP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvbjRvdjF0MHhrdS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWVlNW9vNDB3dnlXA3NwY0IKZeLbt-Vlwym791IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRnyDzaP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsveXA3ZG9raTN5bS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWVlNW9vNDB3dnlXA3NwY0IKZeLbt-Vlwym791IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRnyDzaP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvOTludDdka2wyOS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWVlNW9vNDB3dnlXA3NwY0IKZeLbt-Vlwym791IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRnyDzaP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvcms1eGFpNjlrMy8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWVlNW9vNDB3dnlXA3NwY0IKZeLbt-Vlwym791IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRnyDzaP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsveHkxYTJ0ZDF3Ny8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWVlNW9vNDB3dnlXA3NwY0IKZeLbt-Vlwym791IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo Today's Supreme Court is a threat to democracy — but activists plan to fight back From Paul Rosenberg: For generations, Americans have largely been blind to the Supreme Court’s profoundly anti-democratic character, because under former Chief Justice Earl Warren, the court was instrumental in reversing the post-Reconstruction destruction of democracy, most notably with the landmark ruling in [Brown v. Board of Education](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnyDzaP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvY2J3dmNqeG42dC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWVlNW9vNDB3dnlXA3NwY0IKZeLbt-Vlwym791IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo), which officially ended school segregation. But however significant Brown was in cultural and historic terms, in reality it [only reduced segregation](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnyDzaP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvMDM1b2x0b3NoZy8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWVlNW9vNDB3dnlXA3NwY0IKZeLbt-Vlwym791IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) and certainly did not restore multiracial democracy. Congress began to do that with the 1965 Voting Rights Act — but nearly 50 years later, in Shelby County v. Holder, the Supreme Court undid much of that law and once again began undermining democracy. [Read more](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnyDzaP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvN3NxZnVheTllbS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWVlNW9vNDB3dnkmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZeLbt-Vlwym791IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). ~/AASU4wA~/RgRnyDzaP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvMmJwa2R6MHA4ai8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWVlNW9vNDB3dnlXA3NwY0IKZeLbt-Vlwym791IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRnyDzaP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvODhqZGV6eGswMC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWVlNW9vNDB3dnlXA3NwY0IKZeLbt-Vlwym791IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRnyDzaP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvczViNjFjM210Yy8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWVlNW9vNDB3dnlXA3NwY0IKZeLbt-Vlwym791IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRnyDzaP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvZXE4NHRnYXp3NC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWVlNW9vNDB3dnlXA3NwY0IKZeLbt-Vlwym791IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo A warped version of the Bible killed Nex Benedict From Serene Jones: It is dangerous for us to obscure or in any way deny the truth behind Nex Benedict’s death. 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The vasectomy boom: After Dobbs, younger men are stepping up This expansion of vasectomy services in Indiana speaks to a nationwide increase in interest in the procedure following the Dobbs decision. Immediately after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, [Google saw](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnyDzaP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvcmdtYXo3b2Iyai8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWVlNW9vNDB3dnlXA3NwY0IKZeLbt-Vlwym791IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) the highest volume of searches for “vasectomy” in the past five years. Last year, preliminary data found a significant uptick in vasectomy consultations. According to the [International Journal of Impotence Research,](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnyDzaP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvd29hdzR2NWUyai8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWVlNW9vNDB3dnlXA3NwY0IKZeLbt-Vlwym791IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) there was a 35 percent increase in vasectomy consultation requests and a 22.4 percent increase in actual vasectomy consultations after the Dobbs decision. Notably, the men seeking vasectomies were younger than before, and a higher number of men without children requested information about the procedure. [Read more](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnyDzaP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvbnc2cDY4M24zeC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPWVlNW9vNDB3dnkmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZeLbt-Vlwym791IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). 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