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Legal scholars and advocates clash over limits of Mahmood ruling and risks to public education
Summary
At the House Education and Labor hearing, law professors and parental‑rights advocates sharply disagreed about whether Mahmood v. Taylor should be read narrowly or will enable broad opt‑outs that could destabilize curricula and affect LGBTQ+ students; members pressed witnesses on court limits and implementation.
At a Feb. 14 session of the House Education and Labor committee, testimony from legal scholars and advocates laid out sharply divergent interpretations of the Supreme Court's Mahmood v. Taylor decision and its possible consequences for public education.
Zalman Rothschild, an assistant professor of law at Cardozo School of Law, told the committee Mahmood departs from a long constitutional tradition that distinguished compelled affirmation from ordinary curricular exposure. "Mahmood upends that settlement while pretending to…
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