The Role and Impact of the Supreme Court on Intergenerational Well-being and Equity

By: Marice Ashe, Former CEO ChangeLab Solutions

The U.S. Supreme Court issued landmark decisions that will impact intergenerational well-being and equity across vital conditions for generations to come.  Together, these decisions negatively impact vital conditions across our basic needs for health and safety, a thriving natural world, access to meaningful work and wealth for women, and full dignity for historically marginalized communities.  

This WIN Digest explores perspectives from legal scholars to community residents about the role and impact of the Supreme Court.
Choices. | Piece
By: Keylynne Matos-Cunningham

“Ultimately, the choice is yours. Please consider your options for 48 hours and then we will proceed.” - OBGYN at University Hospital

Nicole, a Junior at the university dreamed of attending, was faced with the decision to choose whose life she wanted to save. As a first generation, product of a teen pregnancy, early on she learned about her contraceptive options. Her parents told her story to anyone who would listen because she was the first to go to college in the family. In fact, she had even broken the curse of not having a baby as a teen. 
Perspectives
The Supreme Court and Democracy

What (most) people get wrong about the court

Outrage sells. Political parties need you to think the court is part of today’s partisan battles, and the media benefit from your misinformed outrage as well. The truth is less terrible and more subtle.
Did the Supreme Court really set back America's climate change fight?

The ruling in West Virginia v. EPA, and the threat of similar judgments in the future, greatly complicate U.S. efforts to slash greenhouse gas emissions, as President Biden has pledged to do by 2035. "Our fight against climate change must carry forward, and it will," Biden said, without much elaboration. How badly did the Supreme Court set back America's climate campaign?
Are the Supreme Court 's big guns and abortion decisions intellectually consistent?

Among the many practical and political questions left in the wake of these two "momentous decisions," AP says, is "whether the court's conservative justices are being faithful and consistent to history and the Constitution — or citing them to justify political preferences." In other words, is there some intellectual constancy in allowing states to ban abortion but forbidding them from regulating guns, or is the court's emboldened 6-3 conservative majority just flexing its newfound ideological might?
The Supreme Court gave states more power over tribal land. Tribes say that undermines their autonomy.

The court’s ruling in Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta is a heavy blow to the sovereignty of tribes over their land and governance, federal Indian law experts and tribal leaders said. They raised concerns that states would usurp the hard-won autonomy of tribes to prosecute crimes on their own lands in a community-based way that meets the needs of their own citizens, which they said could complicate prosecutions in domestic violence and sexual assault cases.
How the Supreme Court Could Turbocharge Gerrymandering Just In Time for 2024

Do state courts have the power to interpret their own state constitutions? The Supreme Court could be poised to say “no” — at least when it comes to redistricting and election law.
Here's what could happen now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade.

According to the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights, 58% of U.S. women of reproductive age — or 40 million — live in states that are "hostile" to abortion.

“Never mistake law for justice. Justice is an ideal, Law is a tool.” 

—LE Modesitt, Jr
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