Fulton v. Philadelphia [TEASER]

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We will hear argument this morning in case number 19123, Fulton v. City of Philadelphia.

Hey everyone, this is Leon from Fiasco and Prologue Projects. On this week's episode of 5-4, Peter, Rhiannon, and Michael are discussing Fulton v.

Philadelphia, a holding that just came down last week.

In a 9-0 decision, the court ruled Philadelphia could not terminate its contract with a Catholic Social Services Agency just because the agency refused to place foster children with gay couples.

This is a big win for religious liberty advocates. Interestingly, it's also a unanimous decision.
The conventional wisdom among liberals has been that Fulton v.

Philadelphia is a good decision and should come as a relief for anyone who feared the new conservative court. But as you'll hear, that is a short-sighted view.

This is 5-4, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks.

Welcome to an emergency broadcast of five to four, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have brought American liberty to the brink of extinction, like the widespread use of DDT did to the bald eagle.

I am Peter.

I'm here with Michael. Hey, everybody.
And Rhiannon. Hi, hello.

We were going to drop a premium episode about textualism today, but then one of the most controversial cases of the term dropped, and we thought we better cover it.

So today is Fulton v. The City of Philadelphia.
And I am reporting from the ground, folks. I'm in Philly.
The field podcaster. Yeah.

The second the opinion dropped, Peter Packet back and was like, I'm going. I'm going to Philly.
My audio might not be great, as is the standard in Philly.

Not only do I not have my usual microphone and everything, but there are street fights taking place outside.

Racist epithets coming in the window, wafting in.

Cheese steaks flying at the windows, smacking into them, just standard Philly stuff. That's right.
This case is about whether, sorry, someone's muffler legit just went off right outside my window.

Philly, baby, go sixes.

This is a case about Catholic Social Services, a foster care service that matches children with families, except they don't do it for gay families because they don't like that. Right.

And the city of Philadelphia said, well, then we are not going to contract with you to do foster care services.

And they said, we're suing you under the United States Constitution, Amendment number one.

That's the 30,000-foot overview. Rhea, I don't know if you want to give some more details.
I don't think we need more details.

I think that's it.

Happy to jump in here. Thank you for that handoff, Peter.
Yeah, so the city of Philadelphia, like many cities and states. Hey, everybody.
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