... One wouldn’t expect an organization committed to protecting constitutional rights to be as optimistic as the Center for Constitutional Rights is. The Supreme Court Term was a disaster in both outcome and process, with decades-old precedent swept away under the right-wing’s new judicial philosophy of “there are five of us and only four of you.” California’s rules against advertising yourself as a family planning center were struck down because, despite a paucity of evidence, it might have been religiously motivated. The Muslim Travel Ban upheld despite a mountain of publicly available evidence that it was religiously motivated. It’s not easy for litigators to maintain faith in constitutional rights when the Court’s not even making an effort to appear consistent. ...

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