Season 1, Episode #14: The Lyin’ SCOTUS June 26, 2022
A lot of people may not know that the SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States) often announces several rulings at the same time, and that is what happened this week.
What is different about this week is that several high-profile and life-changing rulings were announced on Friday, June 24, 2022. “Roe v Wade” was THE most important, but not the only. What do these rulings on particular cases mean for the rest of us?
In this 35-minute episode, Keith and Pam discuss:
On Tuesday, June 21, 2022, the SCOTUS ruled that public funds in Maine can be used by parents to pay for the religious education of their children.
On Thursday, June 23, 2022, the SCOTUS ruled that two Republican members of the North Carolina legislature can intervene in a lawsuit already being litigated by the Democratic state Attorney General.
On Thursday, June 23, 2022, the SCOTUS ruled that a death row inmate in Georgia could decide for himself how he wanted to be executed.
ON Thursday, June 23, 2022, just as Congress was passing the first gun safety bill in more than 30 years, the SCOTUS ruled by a one-hundred-year-old New York law that restricted open-carrying a gun outside of one’s home was unconstitutional.
Stare decisis is the doctrine that courts will adhere to precedent in making their decisions. Stare decisis means “to stand by things decided” in Latin.
On Friday, June 24, 2022, the SCOTUS struck down the 49-year-old decision that federally protected a woman’s right to have an abortion, even though FOUR of the Associates Justices declared UNDER OATH during their confirmaion hearings that they would adhere to stare decisis.
The SCOTUS Rulings June 20-24, 2022