On Friday, December 13, 2024, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in the case of Catholic Charities Bureau, Inc. v. Wisconsin Labor & Industry Review Commission, an appeal from a Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling that this religious employer isn’t exempt from unemployment taxes (details here).[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Supreme Court’
If the Supreme Court legalizes anti-gay discrimination, it should require warning labels
lesbian couple spent a month on Instagram arranging catering for their planned January 2025 wedding. Then, when the couple met with the restaurant owner in person, she sprung Lucy-with-the-football on them, and told them, “I’m really sorry we’re not going to be able to cater your wedding” [...]
October 28th, 2024 - 9:32 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Sycophant judges audition for the Supreme Court
Federal judges are political appointees, so in federal courts some ideological lean has to be expected. But when ambitious Trump appointees cast eyes on bigger prizes, the rule of law goes completely out the window. We saw that with rogue district court judge Aileen Cannon in Florida, who has sucked[...]
October 21st, 2024 - 8:04 pm § in America, Biden, Christianity, Democrats, Donald Trump, Law and Courts, Politics, Racism, Republicans, Schools & Colleges
The tides of political change
Tides flow and ebb, and so does America’s political center. From 1980 to 2005, the progressive left “was mostly irrelevant to national politics,” a Vox article says (here). “The Cold War was over, and capitalism reigned ascendant.” The parties shifted — the GOP to[...]
Will the Supreme Court base decisions on the Bible?
“A group of religious conservatives listed nearly a dozen Bible passages in an amicus brief filed with the Supreme Court” on Wednesday, October 9, 2024, in a case involving gender-affirming health care bans, Huffington Post reported (here). The Christian Bible is the world’s most p[...]
September 7th, 2024 - 1:33 am § in Law and Courts
Why is Justice Alito taking gifts from a German bigot?
Supreme Court justices can’t be fired. Congress can impeach and remove them for bad behavior, but that requires bipartisan cooperation. A few decades ago that was possible; but today’s Republican Party is so dysfunctional, and so invested in the blatantly partisan decisions of the worst [...]
August 15th, 2024 - 5:45 am § in Law and Courts, Republicans
The Supreme Court isn’t a real court anymore
A court makes judicial decisions. This Supreme Court makes political decisions. The Supreme Court is supposed to be one of the Constitution’s checks and balances. It no longer is. This court has grabbed power for itself and eliminated checks on presidential power. Let’s look, for a minut[...]
A brief history of free speech in America
Free speech as we know it occurred late in American history, is fragile, and could go away. For most of American history, unpopular political views could (and did) get dissidents, organizers, publishers, and even artists thrown in prison. The notion of a “free trade in ideas,” which spra[...]
McConnell doesn’t like Biden’s Supreme Court reforms
Good. If he did, I’d be very suspicious. Sen. McConnell broke every rule of Senate collegiality when he blocked Obama’s appointee, using “it’s an election year” as an excuse, then jammed through another Trump appointee right before an election. McConnell engineered a co[...]
Can the Democrats fix the Supreme Court?
The first question to ask is whether the court is broken. I would argue yes. Many other people think so, too. Polls show this is the least trusted court in generations. It’s widely seen as a partisan body. Vox describes it as “essentially [a] policymaking arm of the Republican Party̶[...]