What other rights will the 5 extremist justices take away?

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Barrett and the other extremist justices do not recognize reproductive rights as indicated in the leaked Alito opinion:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/03/politics/alito-roe-opinion-analysis/index.html

Reproductive rights rest on the recognition of the basic right to decide freely and responsibly on the number and timing of children and the right to attain the highest standard of reproductive health. Ref (2)

Judge Barrett has written that the entire Fourteenth Amendment is “possibility illegitimate,” that Brown v. Board of Education, which ended legal apartheid in the United States, may have been incorrectly decided. ref (1)

Justice Thomas also questioned the 14th amendment when he wrote: “The text and history of the Establishment Clause strongly suggest that it is a federalism provision intended to prevent Congress from interfering with state establishments. Ref (4)

Judges like Barrett and Thomas generally have been willing to strike down laws they don’t like. It is an echo of the so-called Lochner era of the early 20th century, when the Supreme Court threw out laws on the minimum wage, child labor or other business regulation. So get ready for a big, long fight with the Supreme Court at the center of it all. Ref (3)

Ref (1) https://www.naacpldf.org/wp-content/uploads/Barrett_Report_10.12.20-FINAL-1.pdf

Ref (2) Link about reproductive rights:  https://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/en/
Ref (3) https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/19/briefing/amy-coney-barrett-voting-world-series-your-monday-briefing.html
Ref (4) https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/02-1624.ZC2.html

About Susan

Susan joined the First Coast Freethought Society in 2008 after hearing about the organization on NPR. Susan has coordinated the FCFS book group since 2016. She retired in 2018 after working as a CPA for 42 years! Now, she is a member of the Advocacy Overview Committee for FCFS.