A SCOTUS term like no other
Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in as the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court \u2014 just after the court delivered a blow to President Biden\u2019s climate plan. Today, we talk about the divided court and what it means for the future of our democracy.
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On Thursday, the Supreme Court sharply cut back the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s ability to reduce the carbon output of existing power plants, a major setback for the Biden administration\u2019s plans to combat climate change.
The vote was 6 to 3 \u2014 like many votes were this term \u2014 with the court\u2019s conservative supermajority voting together on blockbuster issue after issue, including gun control and abortion.
\u201cAny one of these would have been a big decision on its own,\u201d says Supreme Court reporter Robert Barnes. \u201cThe fact that there were so many of them this term is what I think has really put the Supreme Court in the public eye in a way that it hasn't been for years.\u201d