The Supreme Court handed down three blockbuster rulings Thursday focused on hot-button cultural issues, and all three of them went in the conservative direction.
That’s not exactly a surprise—the court has a conservative majority, after all. The first real surprise was that the rulings were unanimous. The second real surprise? Each of the court’s three liberal justices wrote one of the opinions.
Justice Elena Kagan, a Barack Obama appointee, wrote the opinion in Smith & Wesson v. Mexico, upholding the rights of U.S. gun manufacturers from Mexico’s attempt to sue them, blaming them for abetting cartel violence.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, another Obama appointee, wrote the opinion in Catholic Charities v. Wisconsin Labor and Industry Review Commission, defending a Catholic nonprofit from Wisconsin’s attempt to tax it.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Joe Biden appointee, wrote the opinion in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, upholding the rights of a straight woman (Marlene Ames) who claimed her employer discriminated against her because she wasn’t gay.
The Supreme Court’s decision to release this trifecta of heartening rulings, each one unanimous and each one written by a different liberal justice, seems an intentional statement of solidarity, but I fear something else might be happening behind the scenes.
Click this link for the original source of this article.
Author: Marty Kaufmann
This content is courtesy of, and owned and copyrighted by, https://www.offthepress.com and its author. This content is made available by use of the public RSS feed offered by the host site and is used for educational purposes only. If you are the author or represent the host site and would like this content removed now and in the future, please contact USSANews.com using the email address in the Contact page found in the website menu.
