Tag: supreme court

The ruling was completely unexpected. By a 7-2 vote on June 15, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). It is a major victory for Indigenous tribes and their right to remain sovereign nations, their people controlling their own destiny and their children to stay in their own culture.

Most American women, born in the post-Roe world, will now face a reality that sent their mothers and grandmothers to illegal abortion providers before the 1973 court decision.

The justices once again showed they were receptive to claims by religious groups, in this case, Catholic Social Services, which refuses to work with same-sex couples.

The true significance of Justice Barrett’s breach of judicial ethics and decorum is not so much what it says about her as what it means for Americans having the requisite faith and confidence in the Supreme Court.

Their common denominator; pushing to hold off the vote until the conclusion of the presidential election; increases the chance that ‘their side’ will be in the White House and with that, the justice they want to see nominated.

To argue that a person’s religious beliefs are not or should not be influential in how they approach judicial questions shows an ignorance of history and politics.

But regardless of which side of the political aisle I occupy, and that’s the point of this article, when it comes to a president doing their job and filling a vacancy on the Supreme Court, I don’t think there should be a partisan fight about the process.