Justices Samuel Alito and Sonia Sotomayor snapped at each other during Tuesday's arguments over parental rights in LGBTQ curriculum after the liberal justice attempted to jump back into the questioning as Alito was speaking.
The short quarrel happened as the high court listened to arguments in Mahmoud v. Taylor, in which a coalition of parents sought to solidify the right to be informed about and opt their children out of reading LGBTQ-related material in elementary schools — which they argue conflicts with their faith.
"There is a growing heat to the exchanges between the justices. Sotomayor just tried to disagree with Alito's portrayal and Alito pushed back and asked to allow him to finish," Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley observed on X.
As arguments wrapped, the Supreme Court appeared inclined to agree with the parents.
A coalition of Jewish, Christian and Muslim parents with elementary school children in Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland brought suit against the school board after it introduced new LGBTQ books into the curriculum as part of the district's "inclusivity" initiative.
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The short quarrel happened as the high court listened to arguments in Mahmoud v. Taylor, in which a coalition of parents sought to solidify the right to be informed about and opt their children out of reading LGBTQ-related material in elementary schools — which they argue conflicts with their faith.
"There is a growing heat to the exchanges between the justices. Sotomayor just tried to disagree with Alito's portrayal and Alito pushed back and asked to allow him to finish," Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley observed on X.
As arguments wrapped, the Supreme Court appeared inclined to agree with the parents.
A coalition of Jewish, Christian and Muslim parents with elementary school children in Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland brought suit against the school board after it introduced new LGBTQ books into the curriculum as part of the district's "inclusivity" initiative.
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'Growing heat': Sotomayor spars with Alito during LGBTQ classroom books case
Justices Alito and Sotomayor snapped at each other during oral arguments Tuesday as the high court considered a parental rights' suit over LGBTQ-related curriculum.