When the Supreme Court Locks Arms With Republicans
From voting rights to the travel ban, GOP-appointed justices rubber-stamped the party’s agenda this term. Anthony Kennedy’s retirement will only further boost its prospects.
This term, the five Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices locked arms with their GOP counterparts in the White House and Congress against the unstinting forces of demographic change.
In muscling through a series of 5–4 decisions on , , and President Trump’s over the unified objections of the Court’s Democratic-appointed justices, the Republican majority sent an unmistakable signal: that it is unlikely to meaningfully dissent from a Trump-era GOP agenda that systematically targets white anxieties about a rapidly diversifying country. Justice Anthony Kennedy, a Ronald Reagan appointee often described as a swing vote, took another huge step to bolster
