It’s been almost six months since #SCOTUS overturned #RoeVWade and the Court’s conservatives have accelerated the Christian nationalists’ project to reimagine the boundaries of our civil society, reflects @Hegemommy.
For years, Republicans have shown they are willing to sacrifice democracy when it gets in their way, and the Supreme Court is an essential component of this project of maintaining minority control at all costs, explains @KA_OConnor.
And it’s not limited to the courts. In the last few years, conservatives have accelerated their attacks on our core shared public information sources: schools and libraries, reports Lisa Needham.
Meanwhile, in our healthcare system, religion and capitalism mix with fatal consequences, details @tsmendola. rewirenews.link/3Ba3kkz
The groundwork of Christian nationalism runs through the history of the United States. Its seeds have been growing within the evangelical movement for decades, as @smartstatistic knows all too well.
@AngryBlackLady here live-tweeting #303Creative in which an evangelical Christian wants an advisory opinion about whether making a hypothetical wedding website for a hypothetical gay couple in the future violates her 1st Amendment rights.
Waggonner, who is arguing for Alliance Defending Freedom on behalf of Lorie Smith/#303Creative tries to answer and fumbles around.
She's claiming Colorado is chilling her speech.
(No they're not.)
Jackson, Kagan, and Sotomayor are making the point that the wedding website is the invitation of the customer, not the invitation of the wedding website designer. So why is the website the speech of the website designer?
@AngryBlackLady here live-tweeting the arguments in #BrackeenVHaaland, the case that demonstrates there's nothing white folks won't complain about when they don't get their way. They want native children and by George, they'll have them, ICWA be damned!
The case is more than about the white supremacist urge to steal Native children from their homes and assimilate them, thereby severing their ties to their tribes.
It's also about ending tribal sovereignty. "Native American" is a political designation that means something.
But the Brackeens and the state of Texas want "Native American" to be a racial classification so they can complain that the Indian Child Welfare Act unfairly prioritizes Native American people in the placement of Native foster children.
As we wait for the polls to close and results to come in over the next week, we've got an #ElectionDay timeline cleanser for you, brought to you by the pets of @RewireNewsGroup🐾
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments in a challenge to a 44-year-old law that prioritizes placing Native American children in Native American homes. The case is called Brackeen v. Haaland and the law at issue is the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA).
On this day in 1978, Congress enacted ICWA in response to abusive child welfare practices that resulted in large numbers of Native children being separated from their homes, families, and tribes.
The Brackeens and the state of Texas (where they reside) are asking the Supreme Court to overturn over 40 years of precedent authorizing Congress to pass laws like ICWA, which gives special treatment to Native Americans as a result of the long history of oppression and genocide.