3 winners and 3 losers from the just-completed Supreme Court term Vox.com 9 hrs ago © Win McNamee/Getty Images A view of the US Supreme Court on June 21, 2021.
The Supreme Court just completed its first term since liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, and her speedy replacement with conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett. So the preeminent question on many court-watchers’ minds was just how many victories the Republican Party and the conservative movement more generally would rack up in a 6-3 conservative Court.
The answer to that question is that Republicans probably got about 80 to 90 percent of what they realistically could have expected. The Court did not neutralize the entire Voting Rights Act, as some Republican litigants basically asked the Court to do, but it hamstrung the one remaining provision it had thus far left intact. The Court also targeted labor unions. It hung a sword of Damocles over laws requiring political campaigns to disclose their do
Supreme Court: 3 winners and 3 losers from the just-completed term
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