The SCOTUS Chronicles

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Pardon the necro, but the SCOTUS schedule isn't convenient for regular posting.

Anyway, we further see the lurch to the right unfolding in two decisions today:

The Supreme Court’s three Democratic-appointed justices on Friday dissented from the majority opinion in a case involving a group of parents wishing to opt their children out of elementary school lessons with LGBTQ storybooks, writing that the decision “ushers in that new reality” eroding kids’ “opportunity to practice living in our multicultural society.”

The high court ruled 6-3 along ideological lines on Friday morning to send the case, Mahmoud v. Taylor, back to a lower court for a final decision on whether Montgomery County, Md., must provide an opt-out option for parents.

Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority that, in the meantime, the school district must notify parents in advance of the books being read and allow them to remove their children from the classroom. The district’s lack of such an option likely substantially burdens parents’ constitutional right to freely exercise their religion, he wrote.

https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/53733...-maryland/

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The Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling along ideological lines Friday allowing President Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship to go into effect in some areas of the country, for now, by curtailing judges’ ability to block the president’s policies nationwide.

Ruling that three federal district judges went too far in issuing nationwide injunctions against Trump’s order, the high court’s decision claws back a key tool plaintiffs have used to hamper the president’s agenda in dozens of lawsuits.

“These injunctions — known as ‘universal injunctions’ — likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has granted to federal courts,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote for the court’s six Republican-appointed justices.

But it does not yet definitively resolve whether Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship are constitutional, a hefty legal question that could ultimately return to the justices.

For now, the justices narrowed the lower court rulings to only block Trump’s order as applied to the 22 Democratic-led states, expectant mothers and immigration organizations that are suing.

The Trump administration can now resume developing guidance to implement the order, though it must wait 30 days before attempting to deny citizenship to anyone.

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In dissent, the court’s three Democratic-appointed justices accused the administration of “gamesmanship” and condemned their colleagues for “shamefully” playing along.

“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates,” wrote Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson.

“Today, the threat is to birthright citizenship. Tomorrow, a different administration may try to seize firearms from law-abiding citizens or prevent people of certain faiths from gathering to worship,” Sotomayor continued.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-bat...hip-order/

It won't surprise me if and when these six fascists find Constitutional rights unConstitutional.