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Justice Ginsberg

Justice Kagan

Ron Kampeas
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Washington

F

or the first time in history, a
U.S. Supreme Court convened
last week with three Jewish

justices.
And Jewish defense organizations
had their eyes on ... Arizona.
Two of the three cases on the docket
this session attracting special atten-
tion from Jewish groups come from
the Grand Canyon State. One address-
es tax credits for religious schools;
another looks at whether state immi-
gration laws outweigh the U.S. govern-
ment. The third case, out of Maryland,
deals with free speech protections.
Along with a docket having
three Jewish justices, it will include
three women — all appointed by
Democrats.
Two of the three Jewish justices
are female: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and
Elena Kagan, whose nomination by
President Obama was approved over
the summer. The third Jewish justice
is Stephen Breyer; the third woman is
Sonia Sotomayor.
The first major case, Albert Snyder
v. Westboro Church, will determine
whether free speech protections
extend to a tiny anti-gay church that
has made a routine of protesting the
funerals of soldiers. The court sched-
uled that argument for Oct. 6.
The church, also known for its
anti-Semitic broadsides, has success-
fully appealed in lower courts a $5
million award in a defamation and
privacy lawsuit brought by the family
of Matthew Snyder, a soldier who died
in Iraq and was buried in Maryland
in 2006.
Jewish defense organizations
effectively are sitting this one out,

Justice Breyer

in part because of the difficulties of
reconciling the principle of defend-
ing free speech with the excesses of
the church's hate speech. Only the
Anti-Defamation League filed a brief,
calling on the court not to hear the
case. The ADL argues that it would be
improper to decide such a momen-
tous issue based on this case because
the Snyders did not know in time
about the protest.
In coming weeks, the court also
will consider Garriott v. Winn and
Arizona Christian School Tuition
Organization v. Winn, a challenge
to the state's practice of granting
tax credits for tuition to religious
schools. Lower courts have found
that most of the credits are granted
for religious school tuition.
The Orthodox Union has filed an
amicus brief favoring the defendants.
The American Jewish Committee
and the ADL have joined Americans
United for Separation of Church and
State in a brief that defends the right
of taxpayers to bring the case to the
courts, anticipating a defense argu-
ment that because the case involves
credits and not expenditures, taxpay-
ers lack standing.
The brief does not otherwise
address the substance of the case.
The other case out of Arizona has
to do with its controversial immigra-
tion law. The ADL filed a brief joining
the Chamber of Commerce and the
Obama administration in challenging
a law that would force businesses to
use a federal database to check the
backgrounds of prospective employ-
ees. Federal policy now makes the
database available on a voluntary
basis.
Challengers to the Arizona law say
the danger is that favoring Arizona
would allow states to usurp federal
immigration law. ❑

