This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
Leftists often complain that President Donald Trump doesn't follow court rulings. Actually he does. The facts are that it was Joe Biden who openly defied a Supreme Court rejection of his plan to transfer to taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars in student loan debt, for them to repay, rather than the people who actually borrowed the money.
Now another case has developed in which leftists are actively rejecting, and trying to get around, a decision from the high court.
It's happening in Wisconsin, and the fight has been profiled by the Federalist.
In the original fight, the Supreme Court unanimously said, regarding Catholic Charities, that the state was refusing to provide the charitable organization a tax-exempt status, like other organizations had, in a discriminatory fashion.
In the months since, the Democrat-led government there now has been trying to reimpose that punishment on Catholic Charities, and claims it is not discrimination because it wants to add the same punishment to a long list of additional charities.
"This is an organization that's trying to help people and trying to do it as efficiently as possible. They have limited resources. They want to use them well. You'd think the state would want to partner with that as opposed to targeting it," Becket Fund for Religious Liberty Attorney Colten Stanberry told the Federalist.
The report charged, "Amid leftists' ongoing judicial coup against the Trump administration, America's propaganda media have fomented baseless fears that President Trump is going to 'defy' or 'ignore' a decision from the U.S. Supreme Court if it rules on a case in a way he doesn't like. But if these so-called 'defenders of democracy' are concerned about government officials 'ignoring' court rulings as they claim, where is their outrage about Democrat-led Wisconsin's apparent bid to sidestep SCOTUS in a prominent religious liberty decision issued earlier this year?"
Catholic Charities Bureau is an arm of the Diocese of Superior in Wisconsin and works with many groups, some of which are funded through government contracts.
The facts are that neither employees nor recipients are required to hold a particular religion.
The fight is over state demands that Catholic Charities pay for the state's unemployment system, which the faith organization opposed doing. State officials claimed then the religious group was not religious enough.
The Supreme Court's ruling said it was, warning, "When the government distinguishes among religions based on theological differences in their provision of services, it imposes a denominational preference that must satisfy the highest level of judicial scrutiny. Because Wisconsin has transgressed that principle without the tailoring necessary to survive such scrutiny, the judgment of the Wisconsin Supreme Court is reversed, and the case is remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion."
Now, the report said, Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul, a Democrat, has suggested eliminating the exemption entirely, punishing all faith groups that are involved in such activities in the state.