Justice Alito's "weird" KKK statement
SCOTUS oral arguments: 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, a case on whether a #Colorado #AntiDiscrimination law violates a website designer’s #FreeSpeech rights because she only designs wedding web pages for heterosexual couples.
A hypothetical situation about racial discrimination at a photography business takes debate between Justices' to a weird place with Santas.
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https://www.businessinsider.com/alito-jokes-about-kids-kkk-outfits-debating-free-speech-case-2022-12
Elana Kagan's "weird" KKK statement
I wondered how this would have come up. Context matters. Here's what I found.
Jackson brought up a Santa who didn't want to take photos with multi racial kids, Alito asked about a Santa not wanting to take a photo with people in KKK outfits. This matters as the current case is about turning down business for a reason and they're pressing what kind of other situation it aligns with.
From the article, it was Kagan who then talked about black children wearing KKK outfits.
Supreme Court Justice Elana Kagan then clarified that in this scenario, the same KKK outfit could be worn by a child regardless if that child is "Black or white or any other characteristic," and the same law would apply.
"You do see a lot of Black children in Ku Klux Klan outfits, right?" Alito then joked. "All the time."
