{"id":125356,"date":"2025-07-03T07:14:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T15:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/07\/03\/supreme-court-a-hot-mess\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T07:14:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T15:14:55","slug":"supreme-court-a-hot-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/07\/03\/supreme-court-a-hot-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court A Hot Mess"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Photographer: Stefani Reynolds\/Bloomberg)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Taking a sledgehammer where a chisel \u2014 or better yet nothing<\/em> \u2014 would do, the Supreme Court nixed injunctions it didn\u2019t like by striking down the power to issue universal injunctions totally<\/a> and addressed schools teaching that gay people exist by expanding strict scrutiny to parents lodging religious complaints<\/a>. But at least they whined and took swipes at each other over it! Meanwhile, Justice Sonia Sotomayor figured out that if the majority wants to hide their rulings, the dissent can characterize them on their own<\/a>. Also, the University of Florida Law School gave a top prize to a paper advocating a Whites-Only Constitution<\/a>. The professor? Trump-appointed federal judge. The school\u2019s effort to explain itself left a lot to be desired<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The post Supreme Court A Hot Mess<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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(Photographer: Stefani Reynolds\/Bloomberg)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Taking a sledgehammer where a chisel \u2014 or better yet nothing<\/em> \u2014 would do, the Supreme Court nixed injunctions it didn\u2019t like by striking down the power to issue universal injunctions totally<\/a> and addressed schools teaching that gay people exist by expanding strict scrutiny to parents lodging religious complaints<\/a>. But at least they whined and took swipes at each other over it! Meanwhile, Justice Sonia Sotomayor figured out that if the majority wants to hide their rulings, the dissent can characterize them on their own<\/a>. Also, the University of Florida Law School gave a top prize to a paper advocating a Whites-Only Constitution<\/a>. The professor? Trump-appointed federal judge. The school\u2019s effort to explain itself left a lot to be desired<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The post Supreme Court A Hot Mess<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Photographer: Stefani Reynolds\/Bloomberg) Taking a sledgehammer where a chisel \u2014 or better yet nothing \u2014 would do, the Supreme Court nixed injunctions it didn\u2019t like by striking down the power to issue universal injunctions totally and addressed schools teaching that gay people exist by expanding strict scrutiny to parents lodging religious complaints. But at least […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":125238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-1386229149-620x414-N9mkQW.jpeg?fit=620%2C414&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}