![]() Keck pointed to one surprise decision - Allen v Milligan - that saw Justices John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh side with their liberal colleagues to knock down racially gerrymandered voting districts in Alabama. ![]() Nevertheless, some less-expected decisions indicate “key lines of division” among the court’s conservative justices, according to Thomas Keck, a professor of political science at Syracuse University. “And I’m not sure that anything that happened in this term is really going to kind of shore up that respect.” “We’ve really seen a pretty dramatic erosion in the respect that the court enjoys among the American people,” Douglas told Al Jazeera. That rightward trend - mixed with recent ethics concerns about justices receiving luxury travel from donors - is unlikely to improve tanking public opinion about the court, according to Lawrence Douglas, a professor of law, jurisprudence and social thought at Amherst College. It also nixed President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, stymying one of the Democrat’s signature policy proposals. In another, it ended affirmative action at colleges and universities. In one case, it sided with a website designer who refused services to same-sex couples. In the course of days this past June, the court delivered a wide range of conservative rulings. ![]() Keep reading list of 3 items list 1 of 3 US top court unfreezes Black voting rights lawsuit in Louisiana list 2 of 3 US top court bans colleges from considering race in admissions list 3 of 3 US top court deals blow to LGBTQ rights in web designer case end of list
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