Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - “No Right Is Safe”
The cataclysmic opinions from SCOTUS on Friday certainly suggest that the courts can no longer save us. In fact, in Trump v. CASA., we learned that it’s somehow not actually the job of the courts to save us from blatant violations of our rights. With universal injunctions drop-kicked and district court judges sidelined, it’s going to be nearly impossible to vindicate your rights in Trump’s America. No rights are safe when the only way to get relief is to sue the government yourself.
And yet in a definitely-not-planned-last-day-of-the-term-with-all-the-big-cases lineup, several other bad…
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