The US supreme court has taken a sledgehammer to the New Deal | Heather Cox Richardson

Historic battles between business and ordinary people have played out in America’s top court before. Now, it is happening again

Of the three decisions the US supreme court handed down this week, the gay wedding cake case and travel ban cases were the latest battles in the culture wars that Republicans long have waged. The Janus decision declaring that public sector employees cannot be required to pay fees to the unions that represent them went beyond culture to the very meaning of the American government and how Republicans define it.

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