Rebecca Solnit
30 June 2022
The vile majority in the court likes:
–school prayer
–dirty fossil fuel
–guns, guns, guns, and guns
–the death penalty
–women’s bodily self-determination
–addressing the climate crisis
–Native American jurisdiction on Native American land
–refugees and migrants
–prisoners’ rights
Which is the least surprising news imaginable.
Dahlia Lithwick: “It says a lot about the new far-right supermajority that the sphere of personal privacy and dignity travels with men wherever they go, from the locker room to the middle of the football field, whereas there is quite literally nowhere a women can hide, once she is pregnant, from the state’s interest in regulating her if it so chooses. For a man, church is everywhere, and for a woman, there is no sanctuary.”