‘Attack on modern life’: US Congress member Ro Khanna on the supreme court rulings

Khanna is ramping up a bill that would set term limits for the justices of the supreme court. Photograph: The Washington Post/Getty Images

On Friday, the supreme court’s conservative majority both invalidated Joe Biden’s student debt forgiveness program and sided with a Colorado-based web design company that wanted to refuse service to same-sex couples. A day earlier, the court ended race-conscious college admissions decisions, overturning decades of precedent upholding affirmative action.

The hard-right decisions from the conservative majority have reinvigorated calls to reform the court and progressive congressman Ro Khanna of California is at the forefront of that campaign. He expressed outrage over the ruling on Biden’s student debt program, arguing the decision proved the “regressive” court must be overhauled.