The Roberts Court is the worst since the Taney Court. Citizens United cemented that legacy a decade ago, and it’s only been downhill from there. The question now is whether they’ll be the first openly fascist court.
And all as their various bribes are becoming public. Corrupt and evil and provably so. They took the money and sold out the rule of law.
Of course the cowards released these decisions on the Friday before a 4 day weekend for most. I know it's common practice but moves like that make it so clear that they know they're being shitty and are trying to bury the news
Can someone TLDR the LGBT case? I heard something about legal business discrimination but that’s all I know.
A Christian website designer sued so she wouldn’t have to make sites for LGBTQ+ weddings. The court said she can refuse, citing religious freedom. It was a 6-3 vote.
Also, it seems the web designer that sued basically made it all up. The designer didn’t have any same-sex clients. She didn’t receive any requests from gay couples to work on their wedding websites. But it doesn’t matter the court ruled that she can legally discriminate anyway.
She was also not a web designer lol. Insane ruling by the SCOTUS, totally ignoring standing. Same issue with the student debt relief overturning. This court does not care about standing at all and is willing to throw out that most basic principle of law for the purpose of their judicial activism.
This may create a sort of pseudoreligious legal arms race. One group will arbitrarily take away rights based on “their religion,” as has happened today, and another will attempt to recreate those rights under their own “religious” banner, as the church of satan has attempted. “Religion” will end up a focal point, regardless of the outcome, and fundamentalists win.
Which confirms that states can pose Jim Crow style laws against LGBTQ.
A website designer refused to make a website for a gay wedding couple, citing that homosexual relationship are against their religious beliefs. The state had laws forbidding discrimination on the basis of sexuality and in a lawsuit tried to force the designer to make the website. The Supreme Court decided 6-3 that religious beliefs are more important and the state can’t force someone do do business against their religious beliefs and that doing so would be a violation of free speech by forcing someone to make speech.
It's important to point out that the entire story behind the case was fabricated. There was no gay couple asking for anything. It was all garbage used to erode LGBTQ+ rights.
And the web designer doesn't even make websites for wedding. The whole thing was fake and designed to reach the supreme court and to just this.
That’s news to me, do you know where I can read more?
It sure is a great thing that we have such a powerful institution standing up for the sincerely-held bigotry of those poor billionaires and businesses. History books will remember them fondly.
I almost posted a megathread as well.
Ah, I was maybe going to post it tomorrow but I decided tonight, we gotta emulate the original r/politics to make sure the migrating redditors feel at home.
Works for me!
That the court threw out affirmative action on the same day it struck down student loan forgiveness... well, these things are more closely related than you might think.
Up until the Civil Rights acts were passed, state colleges were publicly funded, virtually free to students- higher education was very much seen as a public good- but while segregation was legal college was tacitly only for white people. When segregation was struck down, funding for those colleges was cut and tuition costs were shifted to students- this was explicitly about pricing poor (more to the point, black and brown) people out of colleges now that they couldn't discriminate on the basis of race.
The high cost your children will pay to go to college was never necessary, it was deliberately done to price minorities out of college
It's not just about minorities, although it is about that.
This is about keeping the masses out of universities so that only children of the elite can attend and to isolate them from ever interacting with anyone outside their class. Those children are white because our elites are white, of course, but it's really a one-two punch. The goal is a consolidation of power and privilege, to ensure that anyone who goes to the "right" schools is of the "right" sort.
I'm obviously interested in politics stuff but I'm honestly currently here wondering about lemmy's politics. Does anyone know which way if any this place leans? Reddit politics obviously claimed to be neutral but by the end id say it was one of the most left biased websites on the net. Anyone know about this place?
Lemmy is more left-wing than Reddit and FAR more unwelcoming to differing views. If you’re even slightly to the right of Bernie Sanders, be prepared to be called a “fascist” and ridiculed by bad faith users. Consider yourself warned.
Are you just slightly to the right of Bernie Sanders, or do you suspect that there is some other reason that people keep calling you a fascist?
Because if people kept calling me a fascist, I might take the hint and do some introspection.
Ah look everybody, another one. Thanks for proving my point.
Fine. Since you evidently get called a fascist all the time on lemmy, you should be able to provide an example of it happening.
I for one love biden but hate the hard left. On PCM I was auth center. Where do I land in this site daddy
Neoliberalism
Just started scrolling around here a few days ago myself. Based purely on the posts I've clicked from "top", so far it seems to be about as left as reddit, but in an even more angry way: Even quicker to use dehumanizing rhetoric, to jump on the "anyone who doesn't agree with me must actually be acting in bad faith" trend that has been gaining ground on reddit, and so on. And even one highly upvoted comment that said that every mention of free speech is a fascist dog whistle, which in context I think was supposed to be in support of some lefty thing, though that would enrage most lefties I know in the real world.
See how it plays out though, haven't been here long.
Liberals aren't leftists fyi
Kind of sounds like feelings are more important to you than facts.
reddit kept the_donald around for years after they promoted and helped organize a literal nazi rally. reddit coddles the worst of what conservatism has to offer, and always has.
If that's too far left for your tastes, you will not like a community where you can't work the refs by whining.
Great rulings all around. Lovely day for the country!
Happy 4th of July everybody.
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John Roberts Begs the Liberal Justices to Stop Criticizing the Court
The chief justice doesn’t like his conservative Supreme Court colleagues getting called out for judicial overreach.
Roberts deserves to be remembered as the Justice who presided over this shit… the audacity of this man complaining about being criticized for checks notes decisions made that HE is responsible for as leader of the Supreme Court.
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