.Jordan_S_Rubin: Justice Jackson is picking apart bogus arguments.
at oral arguments this week about Black shopping mall Santas and kids in Ku Klux Klan outfits.
The Biden appointee quizzed a lawyer for a Christian legal-advocacy group that’s pressing the court to rule that religious business owners — wedding website designers, in this caseHere’s the holiday-themed hypothetical that Jackson gave the Alliance Defending Freedom’s Kristen Waggoner: The implication of Jackson’s question being: If the court blesses an exception to anti-discrimination laws in this case,Waggoner didn’t appear to have a coherent answer.
“So, if there’s a ... Black Santa at the other end of the mall and he doesn’t want to have his picture taken with a child who’s dressed up in a Ku Klux Klan outfit ... that Black Santa has to do that?” Alito inquired.
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