Justice Neil Gorsuch angrily calls anti-discrimination training a "reeducation program"

[icymist]

During heated arguments at the Supreme Court yesterday in the case of 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis – about a web designer who doesn’t want to make websites for same-sex couples – Justice Neil Gorsuch appeared angry and even suggested that a Colorado baker had been forced into a “reeducation training program” after he discriminated against a gay couple.

[...]Gorsuch called it a “reeducation program,” language likely used to reference internment camps set up by 20th-century dictatorships to silence dissent. States require training on the law in numerous cases, including education about road laws to get a driver’s license or parenting classes in child custody cases, and usually it’s not referred to as a “reeducation program.”

“Mr. Phillips did go through a reeducation training program, pursuant to Colorado law, did he not, Mr. [Colorado Solicitor General Eric] Olson?” Gorsuch asked.

“He went through a process that ensured he was familiar with…” Olson started to answer.

“It was a reeducation program, right?” Gorsuch pressed.

“It was not a ‘reeducation program,'” Olson said.

“What do you call it?” Gorsuch asked.

“It was a process to make sure he was familiar with Colorado law,” Olson said calmly.

“Some might be excused for calling that a ‘reeducation program,’” Gorsuch snapped back.

“I strongly disagree, Justice Gorsuch,” Olson said.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/12/justice-neil-gorsuch-angrily-calls-anti-discrimination-training-reeducation-program/

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Yeah, what does Gorsuch call conversion therapy....

[keithbvadu2]

3. Holy

[intrepidity]

2. Just call it education. No need for the "re" nt

[brush]

4. More SCOTUS 6 Taliban?

[Hugh_Lebowski]

5. Story is at least a few months old, I remember reading it last year

Not that it's not important stuff, just pointing out it I'm fairly sure it wasn't yesterday

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. Yeah. I was thinking, "what arguments yesterday?" NT

[icymist]

7. I didn't see that it was already posted here.

Sorry about that.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

8. No need for that! It's not LBN after all ...

Maybe just something like "A reminder from last year" or something at the top was all I meant to suggest

[yankee87]

9. American Taliban

My deepest fear for this country is the American Taliban in the courts. I wonder when the courts go too far and we just say, screw the courts, we are not listening to them anymore.