But there are two issues on which the court tends to be both predictable and aggressively conservative: democracy and business regulation. In the most recent term, the court made it harder for consumers to sue companies for misbehavior and harder for labor unions to organize farmworkers. These rulings continue a long tradition of the court siding with businesses over workers, as the journalist Adam Cohen argued in “Supreme Inequality,” a recent book. “The Supreme Court has played a critical role in building today’s America, in which income inequality is the largest it has been in nearly a century,” Cohen wrote. Business regulation is one of the few high-profile areas in which the liberal justices regularly join conservative rulings.

Source: New York Times July 06, 2021 10:18 UTC