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The Brew: The Supreme Court Gets Sick of the Stupid

By John Zmirak Published on June 30, 2025

The Supreme Court last week made a long list of good decisions. The most important of them was to rebuke lower courts’ powergrabs in the form of nationwide injunctions crippling President Donald Trump’s exercise of his constitutional authority. As Gateway Pundit reports:

The decision in Trump v. CASA, Inc., reaffirms the rightful balance of power between the judiciary and the executive, curbing the ability of unelected district judges to paralyze the will of a duly elected president.

In a 6–3 decision, the Court sided with the Trump administration, ruling that federal district courts lack the constitutional or statutory authority to issue so-called ‘universal injunctions’ — sweeping orders that block government policies nationwide, often at the request of left-wing advocacy groups. …

This bold order sought to clarify the scope of birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment, addressing long-standing concerns about its misapplication to those not fully “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States.

The decision didn’t weigh the merits of Trump’s assault on the fanciful reading of the 14th Amendment that led to the mass production of anchor babies eligible for U.S. benefits, whose parents get to squat here despite being illegal. Newsweek reported on speculation that there are not five votes on the court at the moment to uphold birthright citizenship, which will be revisited in the court’s fall term.

But the SCOTUS order ought to give the Trump team the confidence to defy, ignore, and flout every similar injunction by any lower court. The dam has apparently broken in time for Trump to accomplish large parts of his patriotic agenda before the 2026 midterm elections.

Even more satisfying for some of us was the smackdown that Justice Amy Coney Barrett delivered to one of her fellow justices. Just a few months ago, she was voting like and posing for “girl power” pictures with the other three female justices — each one a liberal activist. But something has shifted in Barrett. Is the power of prayer prevailing? Or is it simply an excess of cringe that’s triggering her gag reflex at dunderheaded, cringeworthy remarks and rulings of the two DEI appointees, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson? Either way, the catfight is on, and it’s a blessing to America.

Read a few passages from Jackson’s dissent in Friday’s decision on nationwide injunctions, below:

Never before has “wait for it” appeared in a Supreme Court opinion. Nor am I aware of a smackdown as savage as the one Barrett delivered to Ketanji Brown’s dissent:

This conflict is good for the country, and illustrates crucial moral points, including this one: DEI, quotas, affirmative action, and all such identity politics exceptions to meritocracy degrade the body politic and fuel ethnic division:

I’m glad that Justice Clarence Thomas is still on the court, classing up the place with his eloquence and fidelity to Natural Law and constitutional principles. Yes, the George H.W. Bush administration was happy to find a black jurist with his level of talent, since he was replacing Thurgood Marshall, the first black man on the court. But Thomas’s qualifications were beyond any doubt — which is why the Left had to turn to slander, scandal, and made-up sexual harassment allegations in their “attempted legal lynching” (Thomas’s words) during his confirmation hearings. The same was true of Brett Kavanaugh, which is why the Left tried the same tactics.

All the Republicans in the Senate needed to do with Ketanji Brown Jackson was read aloud from her previous opinions and not repress their laughter. And they couldn’t even manage that.

The Supreme Court Rules That Your Kids Aren’t Property of the State

But wait! There’s more good news from the court. On Friday, the Supreme Court in Mahmoud v. Taylor concluded that parents have the right to opt their children out of radical gender theory lessons in public schools. As First Liberty Counsel Kayla Toney noted, that the decision ensures that parents “have a say when it comes to the education of their children, especially when families’ religious beliefs are at stake. Our children do not belong to the state, and the government should not be able to hide what it’s teaching in schools simply because it doesn’t agree with parents’ values or religious beliefs.”

The Court sided with parents who sued a school district in Maryland for intentionally hiding controversial instructional material related to gender identity and sexual themes. This decision reaffirms that parental rights do not end at the schoolhouse gate. The Constitution does not permit public schools to subvert parental authority under the guise of pedagogical discretion. Transparency is not a burden; it is a constitutional obligation.

The right of parents to direct the upbringing and education of their children is among the oldest fundamental liberty interests recognized by the Court. That right cannot be stripped away by unaccountable administrators or ideologically driven educators.

Wait, We’re Not Sick of Winning

Centennial Institute at Colorado Christian University applauded the Court for issuing another landmark ruling last week, which marks a turning point in the defense of parental rights and the protection of children from inappropriate and harmful content.

In Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton decisively affirmed what millions of American parents have long understood: they — not schools, bureaucrats, or pornographers — have the right and responsibility to protect the hearts and minds of their children. The case concerned a Texas law requiring adult websites to verify users’ ages, rejecting the argument that online pornography platforms have an unrestricted First Amendment right to distribute explicit content to minors. Writing for the majority, Justice Clarence Thomas recognized a compelling state interest in ensuring that children are not exposed to graphic sexual material, particularly when those distributing it resist even the most minimal safeguards.

“These rulings reaffirm one of the most basic truths in a free society: parents, not the state or special interests, are the primary educators and protectors of their children,” said Centennial Institute Director Greg Schaller. “Today, the Supreme Court took a stand for families and the fundamental rights enshrined in our Constitution.”

Supreme Court Upholds Ban on State Cash for Abortion Business

On Thursday, in a major 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of South Carolina’s ban on Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood, allowing other states to pass similar bans to protect the unborn, Intercessors for America reported, adding a prayer of gratitude:

Lord, we thank You for inspiring the Supreme Court to protect states and to protect life. We pray for more rulings like this one and for an end to abortion in America!

Amen.

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The NYC Mayoral Frontrunner Has an Ayatollah Problem

If the leader of a Republican candidate’s church called for the political murder of Democrats or religious minorities, it’s mathematically certain that he’d have to answer for it. Right?

Well, smarmy socialist Zohran Kwame Mamdani belongs to a religious group: the Twelver Shia Muslims. And their global religious leader just issued a call for the assassination of both President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Will liberal journalists in New York demand that Mamdani denounce his religious leader? Will voters in New York City take alarm? Or are they just so drunk with White Guilt/anti-white hate that they’ll just give him a pat on the head and a pass?

We know what British authorities do in comparable cases: Grandma goes to jail.

British Member of Parliament Denied the Eucharist for Approving Mass Euthanasia

Still on the good news front: At least one Catholic pastor in Britain knows that the Body and Blood of Christ aren’t to be used as a kind of participation trophy or a canape. Savor the whining of the grandma-strangling MP:

Observors online were able to pick out Coghlan’s actual, functioning religious code: respectability.

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John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.