Scholars’ Circle – Supreme Court decisions: Federal Injunctions and Religious belief exemption from public school curriculum – July 6, 2025

The US Supreme Court has decided numerous cases and announced their opinions in the past week. On today’s show we explore two cases.


The Court declared an end to national injunctions in a case involving birthright citizenship. [ dur: 28mins. ]

• Erwin Chemerinsky is the Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. His many publications include, most recently, Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights, and The Religion Clauses: The Case for Separating Church and State (with Howard Gillman).

Parents can remove their children from any class they deem in opposition to their religious beliefs. [ dur: 30mins. ]

• Caroline Mala Corbin is Professor of Law at the University of Miami School of Law. She is the author of Regulating LGBTQ Speech in the Classroom and New Judicial Federalism and the Establishment Clause: Classroom Ten Commandments as a Case Study in State Constitutional Protection

This program is produced by Doug Becker, Maria Armoudian, Ankine Aghassian, and Sudd Dongre.