An event on the steps of the Supreme Court on Tuesday, meant to celebrate the 100th anniversary of a landmark decision in favor of school choice, drew a single protester.

On June 1, 1925, the Supreme Court found an Oregon law mandating children attend public school unconstitutional in Pierce v. Society of Sisters. The now-defunct 1922 law was “backed by the Ku Klux Klan,” Defending Education legal counsel Sarah Parshall Perry said at the news conference.

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Representatives from Moms for Liberty, along with Education Secretary Linda McMahon, Reps. Kat Cammack (R-FL), Mary Miller (R-IL), and Sen. Ashley Moody (R-FL) offered remarks before one voice rang out and chanted over them. While the chant varied little throughout the 35-minute event, and other voices briefly joined only to abandon the cause, the protester mainly shouted, “F*** you fascists.”

While most of the speakers ignored the protester to give their prepared remarks, Moody and Cammack did not let it go unnoticed.

“It is so important that we keep having this discussion and abiding by these prior precedents because as you see, even today,” Moody said while gesturing, seemingly toward the protester who was off-screen, “education and raising responsible children with moral standards has never been more important.”

“I’d also like to thank our long protester for highlighting the mental health crisis in this country,” Cammack said later to laughter and applause. “Bless your heart, as we would say in the South.”

Still, others ignored the protester. Miller told her personal experience of home schooling all seven of her children and her now currently homeschooled grandchildren, who number 27. During her campaign to dismantle the Education Department, McMahon noted the importance of the SCOTUS decision.

“This decision set the precedent that parents, not the state, have the right and the duty to choose how to educate their children,” McMahon said of Pierce v. Society of Sisters. “The future of American education must be marked — please pay attention to this — must be marked by not by government control but by family nurture.”

CEO and President of Alliance Defending Freedom, Kristen Waggoner, made a brief mention of St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Drummond, a charter school case that resulted in a deadlock between Supreme Court Justices. As a charter school is considered a public school, and St. Isidore intended to be a religious charter school, Oklahoma fought the school in a fight to separate church and state.

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“We will not rest. Those up here will not rest. Those in this movement will not rest until the court reaffirms that parent rights are fundamental rights of the highest order in our constitutional system,” Waggoner said. “And mark my words, we will win this battle for our children and for the sake of future generations.”

The event came to a close with everyone present chanting “USA” to drown out the demonstrator.