LGBTQ Students in Civil Rights Case Against Religious University Chalk Up Win at Supreme Court – for Now
5-4 decision Wednesday evening the U.S. Supreme Court opted to not block a state court’s ruling ordering a faith-based private university to recognize an LGBTQ students’ organization, but the order is quite likely temporary.Yeshiva University, which has four campuses in New York City, was ordered by a state court to recognize Y.U.
Pride Alliance, citing New York State anti-discrimination law.Over the weekend Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who oversees the 2nd Circuit including courts in New York, Connecticut, and Vermont, blocked the state court’s ruling in what some call an administrative order.
She did not refer the case to the full Court.Wednesday evening, Justice Sotomayor, along with Chief Justice John Roberts, and Justices Elena Kagan, Brett Kavanaugh, and Ketanji Brown Jackson voted to allow the lower court’s ruling to go into effect.
That ruling requires Yeshiva University to recognize the LGBTQ students’ organization.READ MORE: ‘Powder Keg’: Lindsey Graham’s Abortion Ban Takes Hold With Some Republicans – Others Say It Doesn’t Go Far EnoughJustices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett dissented, with Justice Alito speaking the loudest.“I doubt that Yeshiva’s return to state court will be fruitful, and I see no reason why we should not grant a stay at this time,” Alito wrote, according to the L.A.
