Strict Scrutiny

Can Religious Parents Veto Books in Public Schools?


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Kate and Leah recap oral arguments in two big cases the Supreme Court heard this week. The first is about LGBTQ+ inclusive reading materials in public schools, and the second is about the Affordable Care Act's mechanism for ensuring preventative care. There are also developments in the Alien Enemies Act litigation, and a devastating, if predictable, executive order targeting the Civil Rights Act. Plus, Emily Amick, of Emily In Your Phone, joins to discuss the rise of the creepy conservative push to get women to have more babies.

 

Hosts' Favorite Things:
Leah:

  • SCOTUS conservatives seem eager to increase parents' religious rights in public schools by Chris Geidner
  • How Sam Alito Inadvertently Revealed His Own Homophobia From the Bench by Mark Joseph Stern
  • Deportation to CECOT: The Constitutional Prohibition on Punishment Without Charge or Trial by Ahilan Arulanantham
  • REVEALED: Elon and Trump's Plans to Mint More Mothers by Emily Amick
  • These Summer Storms by Sarah MacLean

    Kate:

    • The Trump Victim I Can’t Stop Thinking About by Michelle Goldberg
    • We Visited Rumeysa Ozturk in Detention. What We Saw Was a Warning to Us All by Sen. Edward J. Markey, Rep. Jim McGovern, and Rep. Ayanna Pressley

      Emily: 

      • Now comes the ‘womanosphere’: the anti-feminist media telling women to be thin, fertile and Republican by Anna Silman
      • Everyone is Lying to You by Jo Piazza
      • The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
      • The Witch Elm by Tana French

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