Weekend Report: What's going on?

Supreme Court gives Trump supreme power. Massively weakens judiciary. Further cements Christian nationalism and Project 2025.

This was the week in which we finally got a full sense of where the Supreme Court is going, and it’s absolutely terrible. The court, in wiping out lower courts' power to impose nationwide injunctions, will allow Trump to fully implement his most extreme orders before there is full judicial review.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett basically abdicated the responsibility of the courts and the Supreme Court as a check on the other branches—as the final arbiter—when she slapped at Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson for wanting to replace the “imperial executive” with the “imperial judiciary”, again, as if the courts weren’t meant to have the final say, and seeming to conclude the president is indeed a king.

The ruling demanding public schools allow the opting out of storybook lessons that have LGBTQ characters and the ruling against porn help solidify the Christian nationalist agenda and Project 2025’s goals.