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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsToday there were two major 7-2 Supreme Court decisions
In one they let employers opt out of birth control coverage, and in the other they said that discrimination laws don't apply to teachers in religious schools.
In both cases, the conservative Justices were joined in the majority by Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan. Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor dissented in both.
I love Breyer and Kagan, but two in one day is a little surprising. Does anyone know why they dissented? The cases seemed pretty clear cut.
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Today there were two major 7-2 Supreme Court decisions (Original Post)
Polybius
Jul 2020
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RainCaster
(10,884 posts)1. Religious schooling will find it hard to recruit without these protections
Polybius
(15,433 posts)2. That is true
That's probably why Breyer and Kagan dissented.
Dr. Strange
(25,921 posts)3. True.
Sometimes problems take care of themselves.
Polybius
(15,433 posts)4. Well, today's ruling sure was better
Today's ruling certainly trumps the previous ones!