The Supreme Court announced rulings on five cases this morning. In four of them, the justices didn’t seem to vote along idealogical lines; but they weren’t the sorts of cases we’re likely to hear about on the evening news.
In one case, United States vs. Skrmetti, the usual six justices combined to uphold a Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for trans folks under 19 years of age regardless of what the teens themselves or their parents wanted, or what their doctors recommended. Amy Howe at SCOTUSblog has the scoop.
Some real mental gymnastics there from Roberts. He basically made it work for him by deciding from the outset that it wasn’t a medical treatment and that the law doesn’t discriminate against transgender people because it only outlaws a treatment anyone could get. Except it only outlaws it for the purposes of being transgender, everyone else literally can get it legally.
But this isn’t discrimination because magic reasons. Pure genius. I wonder if he has any idea what a pompous, small-minded imbecile he sounds like?
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