SCOTUS has been horribly busy recently

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is on a roll, and things are getting scary.

Hot on the heels of last week's rancorous and attention-grabbing repeal of 50-year old Roe v Wade right-to-abortion law, the Republican-packed SCOTUS has been extremely busy repealing any number of other laws that have held sway for decades, in an apparent attempt to render the federal government powerless to improve the lot of ordinary Americans:

• It struck down a 108-year old New York state gun law that restricted the carrying of concealed firearms in public, which will probably lead to more guns on city streets at a time when America is still reeling from a slew of mass shootings.
• It has severely curbed the federal government's ability to regulate carbon emissions from existing power plants, and circumscribed the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set the rules on greenhouse gas emissions, putting federal climate policy and the government's ability to meet its international climate change obligation in serious doubt (and if the EPA can't actually protect the environment, what is it supposed to do?).
• It ruled that a Washington state school board could not disallow a football coach from very publicly praying on the pitch after a game, choosing to see it as a private moment of devotion rather than a public demonstration of religious faith.
• It has narrowly upheld Joe Biden's attempts to dismantle the cruel and humane Trump-era "Remain in Mexico" immigration rule, but with a sting in the tail - the case must be sent right back to the lower court Trump-appointed judge who was responsible for willfully misunderstanding and mis-applying federal immigration law in the first place.
• It ruled that victims of excessive force by US border agents are not entitled to receive compensation, even if the excessive force contravenes constitutional rights.
• In an another attack on the legal rights of individuals, the court ruled that a "Miranda warning" (notification of a suspect's right to remain silent) is not ensured by the Fifth Amendment, and that such a warning is a police rule but not a right.
• It hasn't happened yet, but SCOTUS is due to rule on a North Carolina case that challenges the ability of a state's supreme court to block gerrymandered changes to the state's congressional and legislative maps that clearly advantages one political party (guess which one). It is being called by some, the "biggest threat to US democracy since January 6". And you just know how that one is going to go...

ALL of these cases were decided on a strict Republican vs Democrat basis, thus proving, if it were ever in any doubt, that the US's top court is now hopelessly lost in party political strife, and any legal and ethical arguments take a firm back-seat.

And, as the scariest-of-the-scary right-wing SCOTUS judges, Clarence Thomas, warns, they are just getting started. You can probably expect attacks on personal privacy, due process, same-sex relationships and marriages, access to contraception, and any number of rights and other matters that everyone thought were settled for good and all.