The Supreme Court’s Era of Meaningless Rights
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The six Republican appointees on the Supreme Court have made one thing clear: People may have rights, but in many cases they have no way to enforce them. Four decisions released this week have that paradox at their core. Two of them, both issued Tuesday, held that the plaintiffs lacked “causes of action”—the legal authorization to sue to vindicate their federal rights. In Cisco v. Doe , practitioners of the Falun Gong religion claimed that they were persecuted by the Chinese government and that
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