Freedom-loving liberals are pushing back against the Christian nationalist’s stranglehold on our judicial system. Since the Supreme Court made it clear the basis for their edicts on religious questions is their personal beliefs, protecting the nation from the Supreme Court has become essential to defending democracy. Recent Supreme Court edicts have emboldened Christian nationalist legislators at the state level to drop the pretense their abortion bans have some legal basis. Previously, legislators went out of their way to disguise the religious basis of abortion bans. Things changed when the Supreme Court was packed with three new Christian nationalists. When this court overturned Roe v. Wade, they opened the floodgates to a deluge of abortion restrictions. Now, legislators know if the laws they write violate the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause, this Supreme Court is still likely to rule in their favor. When Missouri legislators cited their religious beliefs as the basis for the state’s abortion bans, they violated the U.S. Constitution and the Missouri Constitution. Americans United for the Separation of Church and State (AU) and the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) are suing Missouri. Thirteen clergies from six denominations, including an Episcopal bishop, an orthodox Jewish rabbi, a United […]
