Commentary
This essay and the following one thumbnail the 10 most important constitutional cases in the Supreme Court’s “October 2022 term,” which ended on June 30. They relate the gist of each case and whether it was based on constitutional (“originalist”) grounds or on other factors.
The mass media (including sometimes this paper) often say SCOTUS has a “6–3 conservative majority.” For reasons I have detailed in previous Epoch Times essays here, here, and here, this statement isn’t accurate. And this year’s cases further confirm that it isn’t accurate. On the contrary, these cases, which otherwise have mixed results, still display the liberal judicial pattern of aggressively striking down state laws and regulations while refusing to keep Congress within constitutional limits….