Tragically, the Supreme Court majority in recent years has made it clear that their goal is to wipe out racial equality, and the sacrifices of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, and return America to the late 19th century Reconstruction and Gilded Age, a time of horrendous racial segregation and violence!
They have, systemically, worked to eliminate voting rights, as well as affirmative action, undermining the ability of racial minorities to have the same opportunities for the “American Dream” of equality, democracy, and the rule of law that white Americans have.
But also, the Supreme Court has undermined the rights of women (including taking away abortion rights); immigrant rights; labor rights; environmental and consumer rights; and instead, emphasized rights of corporations and promotion of right wing Christian values, reviving the mentality of the late 19th century, before the Progressive Era, the New Deal, and the Great Society!
The Supreme Court has wiped out much of the progress and reforms of the past century and a quarter, bringing back the ugly repression of the last third of the 19th century.
Somehow, the Supreme Court and lower courts must be reformed once Donald Trump has left the scene, in order to restore the great advancements and progress of the Chief Justice Earl Warren Court, and of the great reform Presidents since 1900.
Appeals court approves sweeping abortion pill restrictions, teeing up SCOTUS showdown
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/01/appeals-court-approves-sweeping-abortion-pill-restrictions-teeing-up-scotus-showdown-00903298
Far-right activists in robes.
Two more Southern states move toward adding Republican House seats
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/01/alabama-tennessee-gerrymandering-congress-vra/
Voters Sue Over Louisiana Governor’s Move to Delay Primary
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/us/politics/louisiana-voters-lawsuit-election-primary.html
State election board unable to certify redistricting referendum
https://cardinalnews.org/2026/05/01/state-election-board-unable-to-certify-redistricting-referendum/
Speaking of courts…
Trump administration is increasingly ignoring US courts, new analysis shows
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/02/judiciary-trump-administration-separation-of-powers
Abortion pill maker asks US supreme court to halt ban on mail-order access
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/02/abortion-pill-emergency-appeal-supreme-court
New Jersey governor is down to join redistricting wars, following Supreme Court gutting of Voting Rights Act
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/new-jersey-governor-is-down-to-join-redistricting-wars-following-supreme-court-gutting-of-voting-rights-act/
Louisiana Republicans eliminate elected position days before an exoneree was set to take office
https://apnews.com/article/new-orleans-criminal-clerk-calvin-duncan-exonerated-6a48a3d1ca81c91d42dc122dbed77f29
Trump and GOP push for aggressive voter roll purges up until Election Day, testing precedent
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/04/politics/voter-roll-purges-election-day
Insane.
In many states, election-denying candidates are running to control voting
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/04/nx-s1-5803149/election-denial-2026-candidates
Trump goes after Jeffries after Supreme Court voting rights comments: ‘Isn’t he subject to Impeachment?’
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5861681-trump-jeffries-impeachment-supreme-court/
Check out Jamelle Bouie’s new video on “How John Roberts, Sam Alito and the conservatives on the Supreme Court flipped the Equal Protection clause on its head to disempower black Americans, empower white conservatives and make genuine democracy that much harder to achieve.”
Supreme Court Agrees to Fast-Track Louisiana Voting Map Decision
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/us/politics/supreme-court-louisiana-voting-rights-act.html
Samuel Alito Gutted More Than Just the Voting Rights Act. He Rewrote the Constitution, Too
https://ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito-callais-opinion-voting-rights-act-fifteenth-amendment/
Republicans Are Way Too Excited About the Demise of the Voting Rights Act
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a71203905/voting-rights-act-jeff-landry-louisiana-elections/
DeSantis signs Florida’s new GOP-friendly congressional map into law — and is swiftly sued
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/04/florida-desantis-map-sign-redistricting-00905256
Supreme Court restores access to abortion pill mifepristone through telehealth, mail and pharmacies
https://apnews.com/article/abortion-pills-mifepristone-supreme-court-louisiana-0533e83d67148fdfec53b1d0d30c1e8a
Exclusive: Bert Callais, lead plaintiff in case that gutted Voting Rights Act, is an election conspiracist who was at Jan. 6 protest
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/bert-callais-plaintiff-case-gutted-voting-rights-act-election-conspiracist-jan-6/
We are truly living in a nightmare “timeline”
Chief Justice John Roberts says American public wrongly views the justices as ‘political actors’
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/chief-justice-john-roberts-says-justices-are-not-political-actors-rcna343958
WILD levels of gaslighting from that a**hole.
The Supreme Court broke democracy by saying the quiet part out loud
https://www.vox.com/politics/487895/supreme-court-callais-voting-rights-citizens-united
The Confederacy rises again
“Undoing the 1960s isn’t enough. They’re even taking aim at the 1860s”
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-confederacy-rises-again
Republicans Unveil Map Carving Up Tennessee’s Majority-Black House District
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/us/gop-memphis-tennessee-house-map.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gVA.fNqb.8u-OGrTepyEz&smid=nytcore-ios-share
A Black Man Won an Election In New Orleans. Republicans Are Trying to Abolish His Position Altogether
https://ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/calvin-duncan-new-orleans-election/
FBI raids office of Dem state lawmaker in Virginia who led redistricting efforts
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/06/louise-lucas-fbi-virginia-00908222
Who Tipped Off Fox News to FBI Raid of Democratic Leader’s Office?
“Fox News got suspiciously lucky being there right when the FBI raided the office of Virginia Senate Leader L. Louise Lucas.”
https://newrepublic.com/post/210029/who-tipped-off-fox-news-fbi-raid-virginia-democratic-lawmaker-office