I’m Alex Swoyer, legal affairs reporter for the Washington Times, and I am here to highlight the Supreme Court’s recent move to close out its term with several wins for conservatives. 

In a six-to-three ruling, the GOP-appointed majority ruled for parents challenging a Maryland County public school system’s decision to deny them an opt-out option during an LGBTQ storytime. The LGBTQ readings and curriculum targeted kindergartners through fifth graders, but the parents said it ran afoul of their right to raise their children according to their faith. The Supreme Court agreed, siding with the parents. 

The GOP majority also upheld a Texas law requiring porn websites to verify the age of users. A porn industry trade group had argued the law violated the First Amendment by having personal information having to be entered online, but the GOP majority on the high court said the state had authority to protect minors from viewing the adult content. 

And in the most watched case of the term, the Supreme Court delivered a six-to-three win for President Trump’s agenda, ruling that lower court judges issuing nationwide injunctions likely run afoul of the Judiciary Act of 1789. The case involved a challenge to President Trump’s move to end birthright citizenship. But the question that came to the court focused on the authority of district court judges to block nationwide policies after a district court judge issued a nationwide halt to the birthright citizenship order. In the majority opinion, Justice Amy Coney Barrett said challengers could file class actions as a way to contest executive policies. 

Hours after the High Court’s decision, a class action suit was launched by the American Civil Liberties Union, representing a pregnant woman and other families who had a child born since the president signed the birthright citizenship order. They challenge it as being unconstitutional. That case is pending in federal court in New Hampshire. 

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