Key SCOTUS parental rights cases draw McMahon, Moms for Liberty to rally on court steps

Education Secretary Linda McMahon and the blimpish radical Moms for Liberty took to the Supreme Court steps Tuesday to admit the 100-year day of a landmark lawsuit that they said gave parents much power implicit their children’s education.

But advocates who spoke astatine the lawsuit are besides anticipating decisions successful 2 different pivotal cases that could impact the conservative-led parental rights movement.

Rosalind Hanson, who is portion of a radical of plaintiffs successful Mahmoud v. Taylor, told Fox News Digital successful an interrogation aft the rally that she is optimistic astir a forthcoming determination from the precocious tribunal connected the cardinal spiritual liberty case. She said it came from Montgomery County Public Schools successful Maryland refusing to let parents to opt their simple schoolhouse children retired of being exposed to books containing sex and sexuality concepts.

"We are not trying to alteration the curriculum," Hanson said. "We are not trying to accidental what you teach.… The bulk of states crossed the state person said you tin person an opt-out for these precise delicate issues and topics, particularly due to the fact that of the spiritual component, but besides due to the fact that of the property appropriateness."

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A transgender rights protagonist takes portion successful a rally extracurricular the U.S. Supreme Court. (Getty Images)

Montgomery County Public Schools attorneys argued to the Supreme Court that courts person agelong held that "mere vulnerability to arguable issues successful a public-school program does not load the escaped spiritual workout of parents oregon students." Still, the attorneys stood by the schoolhouse system’s determination to incorporated what they described arsenic a "handful of storybooks featuring lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, oregon queer characters" for usage successful connection arts lessons.

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments connected the lawsuit successful April, and a determination is expected successful the coming weeks.

Also connected Moms for Liberty’s radar is United States v. Skrmetti, 1 of the astir intimately watched cases of the court’s term.

The lawsuit arose from the Biden medication suing implicit a measure Tennessee passed successful 2023 to prohibition puberty blockers and hormone therapy arsenic treatments for minors who place arsenic transgender. The Supreme Court is present poised to determine wrong the adjacent fewer weeks if states tin restrict specified aesculapian treatments for minors.

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Demonstrators show a "Protect Trans Rights" emblem during a protest. (Andrea Ronchini/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Scarlett Johnson, who has a enactment relation successful Moms for Liberty, called the lawsuit a "big one" and told Fox News Digital she besides urges members of her radical to advocator authorities that "will support children from the puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries for minors regarding the contented of sex identity."

McMahon, meanwhile, reflected connected Pierce v. Society of Sisters, a landmark determination issued 100 years agone that struck down Oregon’s instrumentality requiring each children to be nationalist school. McMahon called it "one of the astir impactful education-related cases successful American history" but said the parental rights question remains necessary.

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Secretary of Education Linda McMahon testifies earlier a House subcommittee connected Capitol Hill, May 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

"Special involvement and progressive activists inactive effort to agitate for the authorities to override moms and dads successful education," McMahon said. "Whether it’s done ideological indoctrination, sexually explicit curriculum, oregon hiding wellness and information risks from parents, the progressive near ever wants to travel betwixt you and your kids."

The speakers' remarks could beryllium heard intelligibly implicit livestreams online, but successful idiosyncratic successful beforehand of the Supreme Court building, they were drowned retired wholly by a azygous protester screaming profanities and bashing a drawstring of officials, including McMahon, Justice Clarence Thomas and President Donald Trump.

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Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., elicited laughs erstwhile she thanked the protester, who was holding a motion speechmaking "Let's TACO ‘bout tariffs," a notation to an acronym Democrats’ adopted for "Trump Always Chickens Out."

"I'd besides similar to convey our lone protester for highlighting the intelligence wellness situation successful our country. Bless your heart, arsenic we would accidental successful the South," Cammack said.