Summary by:
Nicole J. Wadsworth, PhD, MBA, MS
Good News ⭐️ - the United States Supreme Court rules for conservatives and issued THREE major rulings:
🇺🇸 Curbed judicial activism
The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to limit the issuance of nationwide injunctions, which sided with President Donald Trump in a case regarding his executive order attempting to end birthright citizenship. The ruling restricts district judges from providing broad relief and states that such relief should typically only extend to the parties involved in the lawsuit unless transformed into a class action. The Court did not assess the constitutionality of Trump's order, which seeks to deny citizenship to certain children born in the US. The dissenting justices expressed concerns over potential constitutional violations. However, the ruling allows for possible nationwide injunctions in state government lawsuits, indicating a nuanced stance.
🇺🇸 Parents may “opt-out” when educational material conflicts with their religious beliefs.
Supreme Court on Friday ruled that school systems, for now, are required to provide parents with an "opt-out" provision that excuses their children from class when course material conflicts with their religious beliefs.
The vote was 6-3, along ideological lines. The court's decision has, for months, had public school boards, administrators, and teachers worried about how to navigate opt-out demands of all kinds, from courses that include LGBTQ characters in books to science classes that teach Darwin's theory of evolution. At the center of Friday's case was the Montgomery County, MD school system, the most religiously diverse county in our nation, with 160,000 students of nearly all faiths. A group of parents sued the school board, seeking to opt their elementary school children out of classes when the reading material included books with LGBTQ characters. The parents argued that without an opt-out provision, their First Amendment religious freedoms were violated.
🇺🇸 Minors protected: Age verification for porn sites upheld
The US Supreme Court upheld a Texas law mandating age verification for users accessing commercial websites with sexually explicit content, which marked the first instance of the Court imposing such requirements on adults to protect minors. The law, enacted in 2023, requires all users, including adults, to provide proof of age, typically via government-issued ID, if the site contains over one-third sexually suggestive material deemed harmful to children. In a 6-3 decision, the Court ruled that the law only incidentally restricts adult free speech, rejecting arguments from free-speech advocates regarding its vagueness and burden on constitutional rights.
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