SCOTUS decisions in 303 Creative and Groff v Dejoy have given religious conservatives expansive freedoms to now discriminate. Here, Bryan Tannehill writes how this could lead to widespread segregation once again.
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https://newrepublic.com/article/174135/supreme-court-religious-freedom-resegregation
It's not the SCOTUS decision that brought it, though. It's the law that the decisions were recognizing.
We keep electing and reelecting representatives who promote these laws in the US. If we want change then we need to stop reelecting those people.
It's vital to point this out because otherwise we let representatives escape accountability as they point fingers at the other branch of government instead of doing the work to reform our laws, instead of doing their jobs.
If we want different laws we need to stop electing the same lawmakers.
@volkris Which specific law?
Scitus crafter 303 Creative out of fake affidavits.
303 Creative was based on the 1st Amendment, and Groff was based on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
If we want to reform these laws then we need to elect better lawmakers.
There's so much wrong with this statement I don't know where to begin.
- The 1st Amendment is not a law, its a Constitutional Amendment.
- SCOTUS is invalidating laws already on the books.
- 303 Creative was decided based on a case with no standing.
Constitutional amendments are absolutely part of the system of US law. They are fundamental to US law. And the legal process is the main way of creating or reforming them.
SCOTUS is not invalidating laws. That's not how the US legal system works. It does not have the authority to invalidate a law. Instead, the courts can point out when some action runs afoul of law, that is the major job of a court under the US system.
The standing of 303 Creative was spelled out in the ruling. It does no good to simply deny what we can read with our own eyes.
@volkris
This is a nice civics lesson. But it's not what's happening here. Please take this to your own timeline.