The Supreme Court's conservatives cook up a stew of abortion, guns, religion and more

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Rather, they were deliberately selected by the court's new conservative supermajority, with an eye to chipping away at or outright overruling nearly 50 years' worth of abortion decisions, for instance, or expanding other decisions, like those protecting gun rights and religious rights.
53% : Now, for the first time in more than a decade, the court has accepted a major challenge to existing gun laws, specifically laws that restrict the ability to carry guns outside the home.
48% : Supreme Court advocate Roman Martinez notes that the text of the Second Amendment does protect the right to keep and bear arms.
43% : The docket for this term is a humdinger, with major cases involving the biggest social issues of the day, abortion, guns, separation of church and state and potentially affirmative action in higher education.
38% : If abortion represents nearly a half-century of Supreme Court precedence, guns do not.
27% : If within a span of two to three terms we see sweeping right-side decisions over left-side dissents on every one of the most politically divisive issues of our time - voting, guns, abortion, religion, affirmative action...

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