How Can We Fix the Supreme Court?
glamour.comRoe v. Wade. You were right to be worried. You’re also right in wanting to take action, which you still can.In the early morning hours of June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court announced its decision to a nearly 50-year-old landmark ruling that protected the rights of women to access an abortion.
The majority opinion came from Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh. Now, 13 states across the U.S.
are expected to enact their "," banning abortion access in almost every instance, including cases involving incest or rape. enacted its trigger law within minutes of the ruling, and several more states are expected to follow suit.It's OK to be filled with every range of emotion right now.
But as Katie O'Connor—the deputy chief counsel of Demand Justice, an organization dedicated to reforming the Supreme Court—says, it's also ."As today's ruling shows, if radical Republicans control the Supreme Court nothing we care about is safe," O'Connor tells Glamour.O'Connor's organization has worked since the early days of the Trump presidency to get more progressives involved in the fight for fair courts.
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