The fall of Roe v. Wade was not a surgical legal correction—it was the first card pulled from a trembling house of rights, and now the entire structure sways, fragile and doomed. Roe was never just about abortion; it was the linchpin of a constitutional framework protecting autonomy and privacy. Once removed, the rest—Griswold v. Connecticut, Lawrence v. Texas, Obergefell v. Hodges, Loving v. Virginia—stand exposed, each one another card waiting for the tremor that topples it.

The house of cards wasn’t built on whims. It was carefully constructed over decades, using the doctrine of substantive due process to defend the most personal of liberties—love, marriage, bodily integrity. It was a structure meant to withstand the tides of culture and politics. But now? The judicial architects have become demolition crews, smiling behind gavels as they knock out the support beams.

Let’s be clear: this collapse isn’t a result of legal refinement. It’s a product of raw political pressure—Senate hearings turned into theater, nominees pre-packaged with promises, judicial independence sold off like a campaign slogan. Decisions now echo think tanks, not precedent. And in their aftermath, we’re told this is the Court “returning power to the people”—when in reality, it’s snatching it from the individual and handing it to the state.

Precedent has become disposable. The Court’s opinions are laced with contempt for settled law, cloaked in selective originalism, and wielded like ideological swords. When Roe was overturned, it wasn’t just about a fetus or a clinic—it was about removing the foundation from under an entire philosophy of liberty. In that vacuum, the state steps in. It tells you who you can marry, who you can love, whether your family is legal, whether your bedroom is yours.

And now, another card begins to quiver: freedom of religion. Today it is used as a shield. But in this collapsing framework, it can just as easily be turned into a sword—wielded not to protect belief, but to enforce conformity. Once rights are subject to majority morality and shifting political winds, no freedom stands for long. Not even the First one.

The house of cards is falling. And when it’s done, the last right to be crushed under the rubble may be the one everyone thought untouchable—your freedom to believe, or not to believe, without fear.