It took the U.S. Supreme Court just seven days last June to set back public health by 50 years. Several cases before the court this term could continue that assault.
This week on the First Opinion Podcast, law professor Lawrence O. Gostin explores how these cases — some of which are not explicitly about public health — might worsen the myriad health inequalities that became so evident throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. From voting rights to watershed protections currently in place under the Clean Water Act, the cases on the docket of the conservative Supreme Court this fall put the legal determinants of health front and center.