https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/08/thomas-jefferson-high-school-affirmative-action-supreme-court/

#affirmativeaction: This next phase targets #admissions policies in K-12 schools, and is an effort to maintain the #statusquo, even as #American #publiceducation grows increasingly #segregated.
#equalprotection #accesstoqualityeducation #socialconsequences

#cspanwj Feminism under discussion on C-SPAN Washington Journal with Katherine Spillar of the Feminist Majority Foundation. It's time to shitcan the entire conservative social heirarchy of authority which places rich above poor, men above women, whites above nonwhites, citizens above immigrants. #cspanwj #feminism #equalrights #equalprotection #equalrightsamendment

I'm appalled by the lack of justice and fairness in this hearing. #GenderEquality #Fairness #EqualProtection #StandUpForWomen #JusticeForAll https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/93kqk5/abortion-lawsuit-texas

The Supreme Court’s Decision on Anti-LGBTQ Discrimination Is Incoherent

https://www.thedailybeast.com/supreme-courts-incoherent-decision-on-anti-lgbtq-discrimination

#TheDailyBeast #SupremeCourt #AntiLGBTQDiscrimination #IncoherentDecision #LGBTQRights #EqualProtection #Politics #News

Supreme Court won’t hear charter school’s bid to force girls to wear skirts
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Declining to hear a case is not the same as ruling on it. Expect this issue to return as states attempt to use charter schools to circumvent the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment.
#SCOTUS #CharterSchools #EqualProtection

Non-paywalled Washington Post
https://wapo.st/44aJMZs

#SCOTUS has effectively ruled -- in this case -- that public #CharterSchools are subject to #EqualProtection constitutional protections for their #students.

1. I would not count on their ruling the same in other cases.

2. There were plenty of bodies rooting for the idea that such students are not so protected.

https://wapo.st/44aJMZs

"Supreme Court declines case challenging school's skirts-only dress code for girls"

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/26/1183781580/supreme-court-dress-code

I hope this decision supports the right of anyone to wear skirts/pants/etc -- girls, boys, non-binary, trans, and all other gender fluid folks who reject a rigid gender binary!

( not able to remember and list list all categories )

#USPol #SCOTUS #Gender #EqualProtection

Democrats Introduce Bill to Amend Civil Rights Act to Include LGBTQ Protections | The bill would codify protections established by the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County.

https://truthout.org/articles/democrats-reintroduce-bill-to-protect-lgbtq-rights-amid-anti-lgbtq-attacks/

#Truthout #CivilRightsActAmendment #LGBTQProtections #BostockRuling #AntiLGBTQAttacks #EqualProtection #Politics #News

#ICWA lives to see another day, thankfully. But the possibility of #EqualProtection challenges remains.

Hell, #Kavanaugh all but draws a roadmap for would-be petitioners to bring an EP challenge.

And the close of #Thomas's dissent -- drawing a fine distinction between refusing to disturb a finding that ICWA is constitutional and "deciding that
ICWA is[] in fact" constitutional -- implicitly embraces a case brought on those grounds.

Keep an eye open.

#LawFedi

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-376_7l48.pdf

Justice Barrett writes 7-2 (!!!) opinion in #Brackeen--I thought she would be the swing vote, but Roberts & Kavanaugh join. They correctly find no standing on #EqualProtection claims #SCOTUS #Law #ICWA

The complaint said that the Escambia County School District and school board also violated the #equalprotection clause of the #constitution because #books they targeted were disproportionately written by nonwhite and #lgbtqia authors and addressed themes of race, racism, gender and sexuality. #bookban

“The lawsuit also alleges that the book bans in Escambia County violate the Fourteenth Amendment because "because the books being singled out for possible removal are disproportionately books by non-white and/or LGBTQ authors, or which address topics related to race or LGBTQ identity." This violates the Equal Protection Clause”

#Florida #EqualProtection

https://open.substack.com/pub/popularinformation/p/update-new-federal-lawsuit-says-florida?r=1gwmpw&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

Great news--Wyoming is the latest state to codify #ICWA into law, undermining potential #Brackeen holdings on #StatesRights (but not #EqualProtection ones). Republican Governor Mark Gordon declared "This bill celebrates the partnership between the tribes and the state of Wyoming, and our willingness to work together on these important issues that affect all of us." #Indigenous

https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/1584508

@DrPsyBuffy "Conservatives" usually don't plan to exert tyranny over people constitutionally guaranteed freedom & self-determination.
It's what dicktators do, whose place shouldn't ever be in any Congress or other parliament.

Because the Declaration of Independence wasn't written to empower corrupt dicktatorial despots.

#DefendDemocracy #DefensiveDemocracy #Democracy #14thAmendment #EqualProtection #DueProcess #WomensRights #HumanRights #AbortionRights #Freedom #Independence #YourVoiceMatters #BanTheGOP #UnelectableGOP #Insurrection #Rebellion #Overthrow

Having different rights in different states seems to fit the definition of a LACK of "equal protection under the law."

#Politics #Rights @Constitution #EqualProtection

A quotation from Black, Hugo:

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There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/black-hugo/53604/

#quote #quotes #quotation #equalprotection #justice #money #poverty #wealth

Black Students Sue Georgia School Dist For Banning BLM Attire But Allowing Confederate Flag https://buff.ly/3wctXmd

"[P]laintiffs complained to dist about the unequal treatment, but were told the flag represents 'heritage not hate,' whereas BLM is 'disruptive."

Yeah, this is blatantly unconstitutional

#FirstAmendment #Freespeech #censorship #Law #lawfedi #race #racism #equality #EqualProtection #speech #schools

I absolutely love this quote:

"If i seem flippant about the whole thing, it is because the legal argument that a fetus has a legal status on par with the woman to whom it is literally attached is illogical trash sprinkled with bad faith and misogyny." --Elie Mystal, Allow Me To Retort

#abortion #humanrights #women #womensrights #prochoice #freedomfromreligion #equalprotection

Biden to sign historic same-sex marriage bill at the White House - ABC News #RespectForMarriage #EqualProtection #equality #lgbtq

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-sign-historic-same-sex-marriage-bill-white/story?id=94943898

A quotation from Cicero, Marcus Tullius:

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Since law constitutes the bond of civil society, and the authority of the law is equal, how can the society of citizens be maintained when their condition is not equal? If it be not pleasing to place their wealth on equal footing, and if everyone is endowed with unequal abilities, certainly all o…
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/cicero-marcus-tullius/57587/

#quote #quotation #civilrights #equalprotection #equalrights #equality