SCOTUS, an end-of-term report
The scope of change flowing from the court’s rulings has been staggering
Breathtaking change marked the Supreme Court term that began last October and wrapped up this week. For St Thomas Aquinas, a 13th-century theologian and philosopher, the majority’s bold moves would be alarming. Each time the law’s foundation is shaken, he wrote, its “binding power…is diminished”. Though it is sometimes necessary to rejig the law, Aquinas cautioned, there is good reason to be wary of changing too much, too quickly.
This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “An end-of-term report”
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