The conservative majority on the Supreme Court flexed its muscle this term, delivering a blockbuster series of rulings that bend decades of jurisprudence to the right on everything from God and guns to abortion and climate change.
As they wiped away Roe v. Wade, lent new muscle to the Second Amendment and bolstered the First Amendment’s “Free Exercise” of religion guarantee, the justices said they were restoring the Constitution’s original intent by trimming precedents that had calcified on the delicate limbs of the founding document.
And they did it amid unprecedented circumstances, with an unheard-of leak of a draft opinion — on the abortion case, no less — and after a man was charged with making an assassination attempt against one of the GOP-appointed members.