Session will be felt for years to. count the high court making dramatic rulings on issues including abortion, gun rights, climate change, immigration, and school prayer. and the court ended the storm signaling it will weigh in on the roll state legislatures have in election disputes during the next one. joining me now, msnbc legal analyst margaret mcquade, former u.s. attorney at law professor. very good to see you, barbara. so i would like you to put into words, how consequential the supreme court term was, and what concerns you most about the impact of these rulings? it was absolutely the most consequential term we have seen in decades. and i think the thing that concerns me the most is the reverence for precedents in stare decisis. the thing that gives the law clarity, and legitimacy, is the fact that we follow precedent. not religiously, of course. there are some bases, in fact there is the
Talked about ruling but the court made dramatic rulings on a lot of social issues, gun rights, school prayer, climate change and now it s signaling it wants to weigh in on the role of state legislatures and elections. i want to bring in president and ceo for the national women s law center and former federal prosecutor. glen, what did you learn about the court this past session? i hate to say it, but the word that comes to mind is deconstruction. destruction of the constitution, deconstruction of the rights of the american people. i think most directly, it s deconstruction of that sort of figurative wall that is supposed to exist between church and state because there were multiple cases where the supreme court really seemed to try to tear down that wall that protects the citizens from the
New York, NY, June 27, 2022 . ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) is deeply disturbed by today s Supreme Court decision undermining the separation of church and state enshrined in the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
You know, he dissented from the part that overturned roe v. wade, although he would have upheld and he did voted to uphold the 15-week abortion ban. but just think of how john roberts plays a role that s more than just abortion rights. we saw it again on religion. he is with the conservative super majority against voting rights, against affirmative action, lowering the separation between church and state when he wrote the opinion on public funding for religious schools and they will allow more school prayer. where he has lost his court is exactly on the phrase you just used, incrementalism. he will move slower. he wants to get where the others are, but he would move slower, and that is a pattern that is now gone. jake, finally to you. even bigger in terms of
A dog having some fun outside the stadium, playing that in case you did not know, he is swimming in the cold finding home run balls and the dog brings it back to the owner and takes it up by the life vests, a pretty good job. it s a great way if you can t get to the game. get a homer. people sitting in the outfield and they win. sandra: the faulkner focus is up next. i will take it from there, thank you dana and trace, supreme court decision this morning, siding with a former public high school football coach over school prayer in a win for religious liberty, this is the faulkner focus, i am sandra smith and for paris today. freedom rights violated after he was let go from his job for a near kneeling and praying, kennedy arguing it s his rights, he said students were free to jn and are not without coercion, of
"Joseph Kennedy lost his job as a high school football coach because he knelt at midfield after games to offer a quiet prayer of thanks," the Court wrote.