The Omnibus SCOTUS Stupid Decision Thread

'Cause the decisions appear to be coming fast and furious these days.

This time, SCOTUS has decided that religious people have more rights than LGBTQ folks.

Land of the free and home of the brave, indeed.

Also, this decision was handed down on the last day of Pride Month.

Coincidence?

Or a big middle finger?

Aaaand now SCOTUS has killed the student loan forgiveness program.

Happy 4th of July, America!

Translation: the Supreme Court didn’t rule exactly according to WAB’s wishes, therefore the country is dead.

Shaddap. This is an adult conversation. Go sit at the kids' table and eat your Fruit Loops.

This is no different than the gay wedding cake case, it has nothing to do LGBTQ rights.

What a solid foundation for a debate.

There is no debate with children.

I wasn’t aware there were children present.

how do we feel about affirmative action? Needs a callout here, at least.

The party of the KKK insists on continuing being racist and the Supreme Court said no.
ETA: Robert Byrd’s friend Joe Biden wasn’t happy that he couldn’t continue George Wallace type policies.

that's helpful.

If you think today's Republicans would have Ulysses S. Grant, you're putting plutonium in your crack pipe.

That’s nice.

And guess who stopped Grant from finishing off hunting the Klan to extinction? The Supreme Court.

The party of slavery is hard to eradicate.

Remember when you, Marso, Oldfella, and Forbin heroically liberated the Mexican baby camps?
Yeah, me neither.

Mexican baby camps? Whachutalkinbout Willis?

Blacks are just a capable as whites and no longer need a hand out to get through life.

I'm confused how a non-existent business had standing to sue Colorado over a fabricated email from a man who denies even being gay and was unaware of the court case until very recently.

I'm also confused how Missouri had standing to sue the Federal government when they suffered no injury.

At least SCOTUS ruled correctly on the standing issue on the two cases brought by individuals (and unanimously, no less).

That’d be nice, but no, the facts are different. The majority has gotten in the habit of disregarding the actual facts of the case. First in the football coach case, now here.

'We don't serve your kind here' just became legal throughout the US, and it will definitely be applied to more than just LGBTQ.

Someone should deny Thomas service, just to see if there's any dawning recognition on his face. But I doubt he goes anywhere that has a hint of liberalism among the staff.

Heart of Atlanta was a bad decision in the first place. There is a right of free association, even for business owners, and that right was gutted by a court looking to make social policy, the same way it did in Roe v Wade.

Well, except for colleges apparently.

After a bit of rereading, I don’t know what to think about this. It reads like the majority and the 10th circuit ignored the obvious facts of the controversy (namely, that the designer does want to put out a “no gay wedding websites made here” sign), while the dissent ignored the history of the case itself. The stipulation that all of the planned contents were expressive, not templated, is really hard to get around. Can courts throw out a factual stipulation? This feels like a bad case is making bad law, and it shouldn’t have been taken by SCOTUS.

Eta: once that stipulation is in, I can’t see how you can distinguish it from Masterpiece Cakeshop.

LOL have you been away the past two years?

Well affirmative action in schools is gone, workplace will be next up.

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/12/texas-judge-gay-weddings-supreme-court/