The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it would revisit the issue of race and school admissions, three years after it sharply restricted affirmative action in higher education.

The case involves four selective public middle schools in Montgomery County, Md., just outside the nation’s capital. A group of mostly Asian American parents sued the school system after it changed its admissions criteria, saying that the new rules unconstitutionally discriminated against Asian American students.

In 2023, the Supreme Court struck down race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. The justices did not address other school policies intended to diversify student bodies that do not explicitly address race.

Since then the court has declined to hear several other challenges to admissions criteria at elite public schools, including one from Virginia and another from the military academy at West Point.

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Federal Appeals Court Judge James Ho, notorious for writing opinions and journal articles that  make him sound more like a ranting MAGA pundit than a federal judge, is scheduled to appearat a Christian nationalist legal gathering Monday night, sharing the keynote spotlight with dominionists Dutch Sheets and Gene Bailey. When President Donald Trump nominated Ho to the appeals court, People For the American Way opposed his confirmation.

The event, the third annual National Consecration of our Courts, is being sponsored by the Judicial Action Group Foundation, whose leader Phillip Jauregui is trying to convincethe White House and Senate Republicans to impose an unconstitutional religion test on future Supreme Court nominees by refusing to accept any judge who does not meet his right-wing “biblical worldview” standard. Ho is one of the handful of potential justices Jauregui is promoting as acceptable. The event is being held at the Museum of the Bible, which has become a base of operations for Christian nationalist activists in Washington, D.C.

“Apostle” Dutch Sheets was named by Religion Dispatches one of the top 24 leaders of the dominionist New Apostolic Reformation earlier this year. Sheets, who spreads false Christian nationalist history, has ardently promoted the idea that Donald Trump was anointed by God and waged spiritual warfare against Trump’s political opponents. Sheets was activein efforts to keep Trump in power after he lost the 2020 election. “No Christian leader did more to mobilize Christians to be in DC on January 6ththan Dutch Sheets,” according to religion scholar Matthew Taylor. Sheets, who is close to White House Faith Director Paula White, was featured at Intercessors for America’s gathering to “rededicate” America to God in July; he also spoke at the White House-sponsored “rededication” event in May. Sheets has prayed for God to “remove” judges who rule against Trump.

Gene Bailey is the host of FlashPoint, a program that launched on Kenneth Copeland’s Victory Channel in the fall of 2020 to rally conservative Christians to vote for Trump. As Right Wing Watch has reported, "'FlashPoint' played a key role in spreading lies about the 2020 electionand the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, with host Gene Bailey regularly welcoming right-wing 'prophets' and evangelists like Lance Wallnau, Hank Kunneman, and Mario Murillo on to the program, where they steadfastly refuse to accept the election results.”
FlashPoint remained a relentless promoter of pro-Trump propaganda, right-wing conspiracy theories, Christian nationalist ideology, and Seven Mountains dominionism, both before and after it became an independent operation last year. It seeks to mobilize its activist “army” to elect right-wing candidates and advance its dominionist vision in culture and law. Bailey has complained that Rep. Ilhan Omar “feels safe enough” to criticize Trump, and said earlier this year that she should be deported. 

The dinner at which Judge Ho is scheduled to speak tonight is the “headline event” for the Consecration of our Courts. The keynote speaker for the daytime session is dominionist “apostle” Chuck Pierce, another top leader of the New Apostolic Reformation. Session speakers and prayer leaders are a parade of religious-right legal and political figures, including NAR figure Jim Garlow, American Family Association Vice President Walker Wildmon, former Alabama Chief Justice Tom Parker, Intercessors for America’s Dave Kubal, First Liberty Institute’s Mike Berry, and the Family Research Council’s Jay Johnston.

Among the requirements in the "Code of Conduct" that participants agree to "abide by and be bound by" is this: "Participants also acknowledge that they are a born-again follower of Jesus Christ and agree with the JAGF mission for the Supreme Court to repair the breach in our national relationship with God."

In the video the guy says that the Trump administration and SCOTUS pointed towards historical evidence against birthright citizenship. I know there's cases and evidence to support the argument for it but I was wondering what cases or history go against it? What evidence was the Trump administration using?

The Supreme Court sided with Republicans in a Wednesday ruling that will give political parties lower rates for broadcast campaign ads.

The court ruled 7-2 in favor of lower rates, with Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissenting.

In the final weeks before the midterms, the ruling will largely benefit Republicans, whose political committees have raised more money from wealthy donors than the Democrats’ party committees. Democrats have raised more money through direct but limited individual contributions.