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This is Fresh Air, I'm Terry Gross.

The Supreme Court has become a conservative juggernaut, issuing far reaching decisions

that will transform American life.

That's what my guest Adam Liptack writes.

He covers the Supreme Court for the New York Times.

The examples he offers include eliminating the constitutional right to abortion,

recognizing a second amendment right to carry guns outside the home,

making it harder to address climate change and expanding the role of religion in public life.

With the Court's new supermajority of conservative justices,

we can expect the judicial philosophy known as originalism to be the framework for future decisions.

It's a philosophy that tries to determine the original understanding of the founding fathers,

without addressing how everything from social norms to technology and weapons

have changed over the centuries.

This philosophy is likely to have a profound effect on future court decisions.

Adam Liptack, welcome back to Fresh Air.

The Court seems divided in a way that seems more personal than ever, more angry than ever,

and as an example, I'll give the joint dissent by the three liberal justices on the abortion decision.

They write, the majority has overruled Roe and Casey for one and only one reason,

because it has always despised them.

The majority therefore substitutes a rule by judges for the rule of law.

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