The Supreme Court isn't safe, and neither is America
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrase “student government”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article reports Shizheng “JJ” Tie’s concerns about Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, the Supreme Court and America’s political future.
- The paper reported that Tie feared President Donald Trump would quickly nominate a conservative justice aligned with him after Ginsburg’s death.
- The article says Tie viewed the Court as a powerful institution that has shaped major issues, including civil rights, police rights, executive power and abortion.
- The reporter writes that Tie saw Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination as making the Court’s future a partisan battle and feared it could threaten abortion rights and the Affordable Care Act.
- The News-Letter reported that Tie feared a new justice could be confirmed before the election and influence a contested presidential result, changing America for decades.
- The article adds that Tie wanted the justice system to protect DREAMers, same-sex marriage and challenges to the WeChat ban, and feared Ginsburg’s death would mean “the death of justice in America.”