The death chamber gurney at a prison in Texas. | Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images From the moment the Republican Party gained a 6-3 supermajority on the Supreme Court, in late 2020, the Court has often acted as if it is going down a checklist — identifying landmark precedents that are out of favor with the GOP, and overruling those decisions in party-line votes. Among other things, the Court eliminated the constitutional right to an abortion, abolished affirmative action at nearly all universities, and expanded religious conservatives’ ability to violate state and federal l...

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