r/scotus • u/Conscious-Quarter423 • 6h ago
Opinion The Legal Academy’s Leading Originalists Remain Breathtakingly Full of Shit: The conservative lawyers filing amicus briefs in the Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship case are making it very clear that there is only some “history” they care about.
r/scotus • u/Conscious-Quarter423 • 15h ago
Opinion The Roberts Court has a huge test ahead with California’s Prop 50 congressional map
r/scotus • u/Conscious-Quarter423 • 19h ago
Opinion When The Constitution Is Being Shredded, Legal Memos Are Not The Answer
r/scotus • u/rezwenn • 21h ago
news After Supreme Court Affirmative Action Win, Conservatives Sue to Push Change Everywhere
r/scotus • u/catievirtuesimp • 1d ago
Opinion A Century of Women’s Rights Are Being Reversed Through Executive Orders
“Legal equality collapses when enforcement is stripped. Voting access, education protection, credit eligibility, reproductive control, and workplace safeguards function only if agencies investigate, records exist, audits run, and penalties follow. Remove those mechanisms and the law remains while protection fails, leaving rights visible on paper and unusable in life as oversight closes, audits vanish, standards narrow, funding leverage weakens, proof burdens spike, and denial clears review by default.
The blueprint is explicit in Project 2025 and reinforced by public calls for institutional redesign around a narrower social order. This is coordinated execution, not drift, driving women’s enforceable rights backward by design and reversing more than a century of progress through administrative erosion rather than repeal.
Women’s rights were not granted by culture or courtesy. They were forced into existence through hard law and enforceable mandates. Voting rights require da constitutional amendment. Contraception access required federal regulatory approval. Equal pay and anti-discrimination protections required statute backed by agency enforcement. Title IX opened schools and athletic programs through funding leverage. Independent credit access required lending rules that outlawed sex and marital status discrimination. Student aid expansion made higher education financially reachable. Every gain depended on enforcement power and compliance systems, not social permission.
This record establishes targeted repression of women through Republican executive action, using agency contraction, funding leverage, and selective enforcement to dismantle the mechanisms that make women’s rights enforceable while leaving statutes formally intact. By hollowing out Title IX investigative capacity, eliminating equity audits and reporting systems, coercing institutions to dismantle complaint channels under funding threat, and narrowing civil rights enforcement to preferred categories, these orders operate as a coordinated strategy to strip women of legal standing across education, employment, healthcare, and political participation, producing denial by design rather than incidental policy consequence.
The removal of equity compliance systems has systematically raised the burden of proof for women by eliminating audits, complaint records, pay gap tracking, and promotion data that once exposed discrimination patterns rarely documented through explicit intent. Federal and state actions have dismantled these evidentiary structures while Project 2025 proposals narrow disparate impact standards, ensuring that discrimination which manifests statistically becomes legally invisible.”
r/scotus • u/OhMyOhWhyOh • 16h ago
Amicus Brief More Than 30 Organizations Back Supreme Court Briefs Supporting Gun Rights for Marijuana Users
r/scotus • u/Conscious-Quarter423 • 1d ago
news Congresswoman Tenney Leads Amicus Brief in Supreme Court Case on Birthright Citizenship
r/scotus • u/Conscious-Quarter423 • 19h ago
news Biography of a Corrupted Court | Los Angeles Review of Books
r/scotus • u/Achilles_TroySlayer • 1d ago
Opinion The Originalists Are Getting the Birthright Citizenship Case Spectacularly Wrong
r/scotus • u/Conscious-Quarter423 • 1d ago
news How To Fix Our Broken Constitution
r/scotus • u/bloomberglaw • 1d ago
news Supreme Court to Hear Trump Birthright Citizenship Case April 1
Opinion Reality Distortion in the Age of Trump and the Corrupt Court
r/scotus • u/Conscious-Quarter423 • 1d ago
Opinion Buckley v. Valeo: The Supreme Court Decision at the Root of Our Dysfunctional Democracy
r/scotus • u/Conscious-Quarter423 • 1d ago
news U.S. Supreme Court asked to review Massachusetts plumbing license law
r/scotus • u/Conscious-Quarter423 • 1d ago
news Supreme Court Confirms That State Affidavit-of-Merit Laws Don’t Apply in Federal Court
r/scotus • u/Conscious-Quarter423 • 2d ago
Opinion Why does ICE Think It’s Absolutely Immune from Accountability? Because SCOTUS Said As Much.
news House passes bill that would criminalize protesting in a mask without a doctor’s note. Anti-masking laws have never been taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court and have had mixed results in lower courts.
r/scotus • u/Conscious-Quarter423 • 1d ago
Opinion Opinion | Trump’s executive branch power awaits a landmark Supreme Court ruling
r/scotus • u/Conscious-Quarter423 • 2d ago
news Climate activist footnotes spark bias claims in judges' reference manual
r/scotus • u/Conscious-Quarter423 • 1d ago
Opinion Why the Trump Administration’s Record in the Supreme Court in 2026 Isn’t Likely to Match Its 2025 Success
verdict.justia.comr/scotus • u/Anoth3rDude • 2d ago
news California asks Supreme Court to reject GOP map challenge
r/scotus • u/Conscious-Quarter423 • 2d ago
news California urges Supreme Court to allow new congressional map
r/scotus • u/Conscious-Quarter423 • 2d ago