Friday marked the end of a roller coaster of a Supreme Court term. Here's what the experts had to say:
Watch the hour-long program here, or read on for some of our favorite takes, lightly edited for clarity.“A woman, a religious conservative, believes that same-sex marriages are—to use her phrasing—’false.’ And so she does not want to be compelled, as Colorado civil rights law would compel her to do, to treat same-sex couples seeking a wedding website the same way she would for other couples seeking that service.
“She says, ‘Me making this website is a cry of my soul and the Colorado civil rights law requires me to either speak in a way that I find false or to remain silent.’ And they found that she has a right to discriminate. … “It establishes this precedent that people who are using and engaging in the public market, that the state helps maintain, don’t have to follow the state’s rules that are designed to help create a pluralistic society.”“This was a test case that was devised by a group called Alliance Defending Freedom that has been trying to get the Supreme Court to do exactly what it did this morning for many years.”“Under 303 Creative LLC v.
“Thomas does this all the time—a story of removing racial considerations from our law towards this ideal of what Roberts calls a ‘colorblind Constitution.’ And that’s completely ahistorical—which is one of the reasons I’m really glad to have Jackson on the Court.”“The Indian Child Welfare Act was a statute passed by Congress in 1978 to address a horrible situation: the widespread removal of Indian children from their families to non-Indian families.
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