Supreme Court, Trump and universal injunctions
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A group of climate activists seeking to revive their lawsuit against the EPA referenced a legal opinion by Justice Samuel Alito.
The group argued, and the majority of the Supreme Court agreed, that five storybooks advanced moral lessons that posed a “very real threat of undermining” the parents’ sincere religious beliefs and thus interfered with their right to “direct the religious upbringing of their children.
While the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority is pushing the law rightward, the justices appointed by GOP presidents don't always row in sync.
In a scathing legal analysis published Wednesday by Slate, legal experts and journalists tore into the conservative-controlled Supreme Court for “cherry-picking historical evidence” in making its decisions,
The Supreme Court declined Thursday to review a Montana law that requires people under 18 to seek parental consent before obtaining an abortion, leaving in place a state court ruling that struck the law down.
The Supreme Court on July 3 declined to review a lower court’s ruling that minors don’t need their parents’ permission to get an abortion in Montana. But two of the court's conservative justices − Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas − said that court may in the future find a better case to decide whether the parents have a federal constitutional right to grant or withhold their consent for an abortion.
The U.S. Supreme Court has announced it won’t hear an appeal from the state of Montana, attempting to revive a state law that would have required parental consent before a minor could get an abortion.