The shitshow in Tennessee belongs, 1000%, to the Roberts Supreme Court of the Confederate States

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50. Think again? The influence is FAR-RIGHT CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN RELIGIOSITY.

No to ignoring reality in order to blame the south -- which deserves plenty, but not THIS. (And of course there are no confederate states.)

GEOGRAPHY: Roberts is from New York. Gorsuch Colorado. Kavanaugh Washington DC. Alito New Jersey. Barrett Louisiana. Thomas Georgia. Most spent most of their educational years and adult lives in the northeast. (The liberal justices are from NY, NY, and DC.)

CONSERVATISM: All the conservative bloc justices are very to extremely conservative. NO moderates.

RELIGION: Five are LIFELONG DEVOUT CATHOLICS, Gorsuch also devout Catholic most of his life before shifting to an undefined Episcopalian (Protestant) sect; many see him as effectively a sixth Catholic justice.

Here's a little eye-opening religious history of the Roberts court by The Constitution Center from a study published before Barrett joined the court. Obviously, the influence of conservative Christianity has grown since she replaced RBG.

The study was based on a dataset that included every Supreme Court case that produced an opinion relating to the First Amendment’s establishment and free exercise clauses from 1953 to the 2020 term. The data showed that the Roberts Court represents a break in the development of the two religion clauses.

“Over the entire period, the court ruled in favor of religion 59% of the time,” the authors reported. “Win rates do not differ significantly for Free Exercise Clause cases (59%) and Establishment Clause cases (57%). Across the Warren, Burger, and Rehnquist Courts the religious side prevailed about half the time, with gradually increasing success. In the Roberts Court, the win rate jumps to 83%.”

The study noted two major shifts in the court’s religion rulings: leftward in the 1960s and 1970s and rightward beginning in the 1990s.

“The religion clauses of the First Amendment were once understood to provide modest but meaningful protection for non-mainstream religions from discrimination by governments that favored mainstream Christian organizations, practices, or values,” they wrote. “On the other hand, the religion clauses provided little protection for mainstream religions—indeed, under the Establishment Clause, mainstream religion’s influence over government policy was restricted. Under the Roberts Court, however, the religion clauses have increasingly been used to protect mainstream Christian values or organizations that are restricted by secular laws or liberal constitutional protections.” This transformation, the study says, is largely the result of changes in the court’s personnel. ...

“The top five most pro-religion justices since at least World War II are Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. and Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito Jr., Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch.”

“They are also all Christian, mostly Catholic, religiously devout (though this variable provides a weaker explanation than the others), and ideologically conservative. Amy Coney Barrett will likely advance this trend.”

Barrett, who didn’t join the court until 2020, did advance the trend in last term’s religion decisions, her first full term on the court. ...

https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-justices-faith-and-their-religion-clause-decisions

Of course it's not just religion. Other studies examine the profound secular shifts to serving the wealthy and business and to acting in effect as a political agent of the Republican Party.