Saturday, June 07, 2025

SCOTUS Body-Slams Lefty WI Supremes

In March 2024, the Lefty majority of the Wisconsin Supreme Court denied tax-exemption for Catholic Charities of Superior, WI.

Two days ago, the US Supreme Court UNANIMOUSLY body-slammed the Wisconsin Lefties.

March 2024 totally erroneous ruling from Extreeeeeeme Lefties:

 The liberal majority of the Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled that the charitable arm of the Catholic Diocese in Superior is not exempt from paying into the state’s unemployment insurance system because its operations aren’t primarily religious....

June, 2025 SCOTUS (in part):

... In support of that rule, the State draws on Gillette v. United States, 401 U. S. 437. Gillette, however, is inapposite. Unlike the conscientious objector status in Gillette, which was equally available to members of all religions, the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s interpretation of §108.02(15)(h)(2) facially differentiates among religions based on inherently theological choices. The State next disputes the premise that petitioners were denied coverage because they do not proselytize or serve only Catholics in the course of performing charitable work. The State instead claims that petitioners were excluded because they engaged in no “distinctively religious activity,” meaning “activities that express and inculcate religious doctrine.” Tr. of Oral Arg. 81. That understanding of the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s ruling, even if assumed correct, cannot save the statute from strict scrutiny because decisions about whether to “express and inculcate religious doctrine” while performing charitable work are fundamentally theological choices driven by religious doctrine. Pp. 11–13...

IOW, the Extreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeme Lefties on the Wisconsin Supreme Court mis-applied a previous case in order to drag Catholic Charities into the State's unemployment-comp scheme--at great cost.

They also ignored the real charter of Catholic Charities (to help all in need) in order to get their way.

SCOWI--still full of Extreeeeeeeeeeeeeeme Lefites (and one Government-Man)--will make a lot more serious legal errors in the next few yearsBet on that. 

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