Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, and 303 Creative v. Elenis, as well as the recent decisions of Skrmetti v. U.S. and Mahmoud v. Taylor have severely eroded the rights of women and marginalized groups.  

Schools such as the University of Pennsylvania as well as top law firms have capitulated to the bullying, though others have refused to acquiesce.  

Legislation building on a newfound freedom to discriminate have been successful in reversing the gains made by disadvantaged groups who seek full participation in the American Dream.  

In yet an even more extreme regressive step, the Supreme Court in Dept of Homeland Security v. DVD severely eroded the Due Process rights of all peoples residing in the United States.  The administration led by convicted felon Donald Trump is now targeting for deportation people of color, regardless of their residency status.  Indeed, it now threatens denaturalization or rendition of its critics and political enemies. 

These activities fortify a theocratic movement with regard to the First Amendment to the point of weaponizing it; any action which adversely affects Christian sects is declared infringing on their religious freedom, even when they are operating in the stream of commerce, or when they wish to use public funds for religious education, or when a woman’s right to bodily autonomy is inapposite to their religious beliefs. 

Advocates for regressive policies and laws long for the days when they were judged by the color of their skin (white), their gender (male), and their sexuality (heterosexual), rather than their abilities, as witnessed by the recent confirmation of a  white supremist, wholly unqualified and utterly incompetent heterosexual white man to serve as Secretary of Defense.  As further evidence of this deterioration, through a series of Executive Orders, the current administration has undermined efforts to end discriminatory practices.  

The Civil Rights Era of the mid-Twentieth Century, whose reforms were designed to bring about equality of opportunity, has come crashing down, along with many of the foundations of our Democracy.