@article{THESIS,
      recid = {5836},
      author = {Louras, Ian},
      title = {Champions and Oppressors: The Varying Roles of the Supreme  Court Towards the Queer Community},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {B.A.},
      address = {2022-04},
      number = {THESIS},
      abstract = {<p>The United States Supreme Court has a long history of  engagement with the queer community in America. As the  public consciousness slowly turns in the direction of  judiciary reform, the Supreme Court’s record of both  successes and failures in the arena of queer rights should  be brought into consideration. In this qualitative study, I  interviewed professionals and subject matter experts from  across the spectrum of queer-rights causes and Supreme  Court studies, bringing responses into conversation with  past research and historical reality. Interviews were  conducted on a semi-structured basis, tailored to the  specific expertise of the interviewee; responses were  manually examined to uncover patterns and common threads in  the data. This analysis yielded that the queer community  tends to be extremely leery and even fearful of the Supreme  Court because of its past role in suppressing the community  and its failure to provide queer people with basic rights  without massive political pressure. These behaviors are  primarily a result of excessive politicization and  polarization of the Supreme Court, which is institutional  in nature and can only be resolved through direct judicial  reform efforts. The reform option most conducive to  repairing the divide between the Court and the community  would involve establishing a set of term limits for Supreme  Court justices, ideally the proposed system of  eighteen-year terms. As America enters a new era of the  struggle for queer rights, it is vital to understand the  roles played by institutional actors such as the Supreme  Court and develop reform measures that can leverage those  actors in ways beneficial for the queer community, as well  as other marginalized communities.</p>},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/5836},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.5836},
}