The Warren Court Expanded Civil Rights and Voting Rights in America.The Warren Court: Its Impact and Importance
How the Warren Court Expanded Civil Rights in America
“As chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Warren led a court that decided multiple historic rulings on civil rights cases.”
- Baker v Carr – Voting Districts
- Brown v Board of Education – Desegregating Schools
- Reynolds v Sims – Voting Districts
- Mapp v Ohio – Search Warrants
- Gideon v. Wainwright – Right to an Attorney
- Miranda v Arizona – Right to Remain Silent
- Engel v Vitale – No faculty-led Prayer in school
- Loving v. Virginia – Interracial Marriage
The Warren Court: Its Impact and Importance
Now we have the Roberts Court
In 1933 Germany had the Enabling Acts:
The Roberts Court is destroying Civil Rights, Voting Rights, Women’s Rights, Affirmative Action, Our Political System and Democracy itself. This quote is not aging well:
“I see no real evidence, with very few genuinely rare exceptions, that politics with a capital ‘P’ are shaping the Court’s decisions in any improper sense.” Laurence Tribe
The first nail in the death of Our Constitution and Our Democracy was Citizens United v FEC.
The Citizens United v FEC decision opened up a firehose of money – we became a country of oligarchs – and it poured into SCOTUS!
Thomas accepted more gifts from billionaire benefactors, new ProPublica report says
The next nail in our coffin, reversing Voting Rights, was Shelby County v Holder
A huge nail was Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization
Affirmative Action with Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, and Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina
Here’s how each Supreme Court justice voted to decide the affirmative action cases
Open Bribery is a thing now, Snyder v. United States
Justices Thomas and Alito already knew this, but confirmed it with the Chevron decision,
On January 31, 2020, what used to be my GOP died,
On July 1st, 2024, what used to be my American Democracy, based on Checks and Balances, died,