Voters Must Demand Supreme Court Reform to Protect Democracy
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WASHINGTON, D.C., July 8, 2026 – One week ago, the Supreme Court completed its 2025–2026 term, and the most that can be said for it is that the few select cases that met the bare minimum of adhering to explicit constitutional rights were window dressing to serving the extreme agenda of Trump and the MAGA majority: dismantling our democracy, enabling corruption, and sanctioning cruelty.
In Louisiana v. Callais, the Court gutted the last functional aspect of the Voting Rights Act, likely stripping away the right of tens of thousands of Black voters to representation in shaping the laws that affect all our lives. The early timing of the decision almost immediately demonstrated its implications for the 2026 elections and beyond, as states like Louisiana and Alabama quickly gerrymandered their districts to reduce Black representation and secure a political advantage. Then in National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission, the Court opened another pipeline for billionaires to exert influence on elections through political parties.
The Court may have barely upheld birthright citizenship, but it still handed the Trump administration several terrible new ways to harm immigrants. Thanks to Mullin v. Al Orto Lado, it’s now easier for immigration officials to refuse asylum seekers access to the country simply by stopping them within spitting distance from the border. Because they have not literally stepped foot into the country, they can be denied the opportunity to request asylum on a technicality. For those who have already entered the country legally and achieved permanent residency, Blanche v. Lau allows the administration to strip these individuals of their green card privileges simply because they’ve been accused of a crime, even before their guilt has been demonstrated. Mullin v. Doe further empowered the Trump administration to strip temporary protected status from refugees from Syria and Haiti, immediately terminating such relief and likely sending many individuals back to unsafe countries.
That’s to say nothing of the immense unitary executive power granted to Trump in Trump v. Slaughter, which overturns more than 90 years of precedent to allow the president to fire whoever he wants from independent agencies — agencies Congress specifically designed to be independent and shielded from such political manipulation.
At the same time, the Court was once again taking aim at the LGBTQ+ community. In Chiles v. Salazar, the Court ruled in favor of a hate group seeking to issue harmful, abusive “conversion therapy” to LGBTQ+ minors whose parents hoped to shame them out of having a queer identity. Then in West Virginia v. B.P.J., the Court greenlit even more discrimination against the transgender community by allowing anti-trans sports bans — humoring anti-science hate while undermining trans people’s access to the protections of the Constitution.
Alliance for Justice Action Campaign President Rachel Rossi issued the following statement:
“Time and again, justices tasked with dispensing ‘equal justice under law’ are abusing their authority to increasingly shift unchecked power to Trump and those who wield the law as a weapon against the rights and safety of the people in favor of their own interests. Meanwhile, Trump is spending his second term filling the lower courts with loyalists and his own personal lawyers eager to uphold the MAGA agenda, who Senate Republicans are unblinkingly confirming onto the courts.
“Enough is enough. Voters of all walks of life cannot ignore this year’s stark examples of these far-right, partisan, and corrupt justices chipping away at our democracy and our human rights. We need lawmakers and a president who are ready to stand up for change in the form of serious Supreme Court reform. Only by defanging the MAGA majority through Court expansion, term limits, and other reforms can we stop the incessant harm they are doing to our country. We likewise deserve senators who will take the judicial nomination process seriously rather than eagerly confirming Trump’s loyalist nominees.
“This Supreme Court is tearing apart the fabric of our nation, and we can’t repair it until we have leaders willing to acknowledge the harm and fight for real solutions. We can and will have a future Supreme Court that restores our civil rights, safeguards democracy, enshrines new freedoms, protects communities, and builds a country where justice serves us all. But to get there, Court reform must become a core tenet of those seeking to represent the people’s interests this election season — lest we lose the right to hold meaningful elections at all.”
