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Max Kennerly Jun 30, 2023

Let's be clear: nothing happened to the plaintiff in 303 Creative, the whole "case" was a hypothetical exercise, and the GOP Justices used it as a vehicle to undermine every single federal, state, county, and city anti-discrimination law in the country.

There's now a special exemption for any bigot who wants to claim their work is "expressive," even if the work they do doesn't express any message at all.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-476_c185.pdf

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@maxkennerly And if the defense had provided EVEN MORE ironclad legal reasoning showing the absurdity of this “expressive” malarkey, the court would have ginned up some other reason to rule the way they wanted to. The reasoning doesn’t matter (which must make actual constitutional law scholars wince). This is why the court is illegitimate—they aren’t even trying to pursue equal justice under law.