The Supreme Court’s Conservative Run Is Over

[mystery-ak]

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/supreme-court-abortion-decision-rightward-run-over-213996

 The Supreme Court’s Conservative Run Is Over

This year’s final decisions suggest we’ve passed a turning point in the Court’s rightward march.

By Richard Primus

June 28, 2016

Monday’s abortion decision by the Supreme Court, on the last day of its term, didn’t just strike down a restrictive Texas law: It may also signal that America has passed the high-water mark in the long rise of conservatism on the nation’s highest court.

The abortion ruling, along with the court’s decision upholding college affirmative action last week, suggests an end to the court’s steady movement to the right on a broad range of issues since the appointments of Justice Antonin Scalia in 1986 and Justice Clarence Thomas in 1991. Though Republican politicians have railed against liberal and activist judges for years, conservatives have enjoyed great success in advancing their principles through the court system for most of the past half-century. The Supreme Court has had a consistent majority of Republican-appointed justices since 1970, and in recent decades it has moved the law rightward on private property, church and state, federal power, firearms regulation, criminal procedure and administrative governance. With a few notable exceptions, such as gay rights, liberal lawyers have grown accustomed to playing defense, trying to parry conservative attempts to push the law yet further in conservative directions.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/supreme-court-abortion-decision-rightward-run-over-213996#ixzz4CvguS3EZ

[txradioguy]

The Supreme Court’s Conservative Run Is Over

Wait...I never knew it actually started. 

[Smokin Joe]

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/supreme-court-abortion-decision-rightward-run-over-213996

 The Supreme Court’s Conservative Run Is Over

This year’s final decisions suggest we’ve passed a turning point in the Court’s rightward march.

By Richard Primus

June 28, 2016

Monday’s abortion decision by the Supreme Court, on the last day of its term, didn’t just strike down a restrictive Texas law: It may also signal that America has passed the high-water mark in the long rise of conservatism on the nation’s highest court.

The abortion ruling, along with the court’s decision upholding college affirmative action last week, suggests an end to the court’s steady movement to the right on a broad range of issues since the appointments of Justice Antonin Scalia in 1986 and Justice Clarence Thomas in 1991. Though Republican politicians have railed against liberal and activist judges for years, conservatives have enjoyed great success in advancing their principles through the court system for most of the past half-century. The Supreme Court has had a consistent majority of Republican-appointed justices since 1970, and in recent decades it has moved the law rightward on private property, church and state, federal power, firearms regulation, criminal procedure and administrative governance. With a few notable exceptions, such as gay rights, liberal lawyers have grown accustomed to playing defense, trying to parry conservative attempts to push the law yet further in conservative directions.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/supreme-court-abortion-decision-rightward-run-over-213996#ixzz4CvguS3EZ

Any run to the right was well over when Roberts rewrote Obamacare penalties into taxes, even though they originated in the Senate, and not the House as revenue measures are required to do. That's a case study in wrong, as far as the US Constitution goes, and it got through.