They also indicated their disregard for the medical profession and the privacy of the doctor-patient relationship that the justices in the majority have no doubt continued to enjoy since their ruling became practice. Wade and shunting abortion rights to states, the justices who voted in favor of Dobbs put religion and the status of a mass of cells over the health and welfare of actual people who make up approximately 50 percent of the U.S. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the majority justices ignored what we and others have repeatedly reported: abortion is safe-much safer than pregnancy itself-and denying people access to legal abortions leads to poorer physical and mental health outcomes, not to mention economic outcomes. We urge the court to change its reasoning-to value statistics, to value research and to understand how ignoring it in making decisions is contrary to common decency and their responsibility as jurists to the American people. This shift away from our social responsibilities for health and welfare is one that we fear will lead to needless suffering and death. In his dissent on the court’s decision to not take on New York’s vaccine mandate law for health-care workers, Justice Clarence Thomas laments that the workers demanding a religious exemption objected to available COVID vaccines “because they were developed using cell lines derived from aborted children,” wording that obscures that the cells were grown in a lab based on elective abortions decades ago and also are used in the development of routine drugs. Even in decisions that uphold basic public health tenets, conservative justices have spouted misleading scientific claims. This is in contrast to the way our current conservative justices have viewed COVID restrictions, whether exempting religious groups from bans on group gatherings or barring vaccine mandates for large businesses. They have devalued the role of expertise.ĭisregarding science and evidence is a terrible shift for the highest court in the land, which once safeguarded the health of the public in rulings that upheld state vaccine mandates and safe food production.
Over and over in the 2021–2022 term, their decisions put industry, religion (specifically, a conservative strain of Christianity) and special interests above facts. The promise of democracy is being sorely tested by judgments from the Supreme Court’s conservative justices in cases involving health, welfare and the future of the planet. It is alarming that the justices are now set to consider a voting rights case in the current term, given Chief Justice John Roberts’s feelings on what he calls the “sociological gobbledygook” of research into the effects of gerrymandering. The tables conclude with term statistics and concordance data.During a tumultuous few weeks in the summer of 2022, the Supreme Court ignored the scientific evidence underlying safe abortion, the need to slow climate change, and the value of gun safety laws. These lists contain detailed tables about each term, including which Justices filed the Court's opinion, dissenting and concurring opinions in each case, and information about Justices joining opinions. Lists of United States Supreme Court cases by volume.Roberts Court (September 29, 2005, to the present)ĭecisions of the Supreme Court of the United States are officially published in the United States Reports.Rehnquist Court (Septem– September 3, 2005).
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