Scandal Ridden Supreme Court Justices To Determine Women’s Rights

Ban abortion pills? Abortions for rape victims? Let domestic abusers get guns? Ban no-fault divorces?

Who decides what freedoms American girls and women keep and which they will lose?

A Trump-packed Supreme Court packed with religious extremists. Two justices with questionable pasts. How does a small minority get to make decisions that impacts the lives of millions of American women? Follow along with this StoryMap and decide for yourself.

The Right’s Assault on Divorce Will Put More Women at Risk - Vanity Fair
Supreme Court ruling on mifepristone causes uncertainty for advocates - NPR
Supreme Court to consider whether domestic abusers can own guns - NPR
A Battered Supreme Court Returns to Confront a Challenging Docket - NY Times

Tyranny of the minority

"Mitch McConnell Is Stacking the Courts and Using Voter Suppression to Maintain Power. 50 Republican senators represent 43.5% of Americans, and whose Senate caucus hasn’t represented a majority of the country’s population in a quarter century — is basically saying is that a minoritarian political party has an absolute right to stymie the political majority. He is averring that the GOP has a God-given free pass to impose on the entire country ever more extreme legal interpretations of everything from abortion access to environmental regulations to voting rights, no matter where the voting public stands on these issues." - Truthout

GOP packed Supreme Court strips women of their freedoms

Reproductive rights attacked: MAGA Republicans strip women of their rights to choose again.

Trump appointed Federal Judge Mathew Kacsmaryk, the sole federal judge in Amarillo, Texas, ruled to ban the use of the abortion medication Mifepristone. A medication that has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for over two decades, and you can thank the Republican Senator from Missouri Josh Hawley and his antiabortion activist wife Erin Hawley for influencing the judge. - Observer

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TakeAway: Vote for Democrats to fix this "far-right, extreme and corrupt Supreme Court. It’s past time we pass a binding code of ethics and #ExpandTheCourt." - Aryana Pressley

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