Large, overweening bureaucracies don’t mix well with individual rights . Not only are people too often stunned by governmental intrusion into their personal lives, but bureaucrats regularly cut constitutional corners to make it easier to intrude. Fortunately, in several recent decisions, the Supreme Court found that administrative ease never justifies a disregard for fundamental individual rights.

At the end of its most recent term in late June, the court decided Mahmoud v. Montgomery County Public Schools . There, parents of Muslim, Catholic, Ethiopian Orthodox, and other religious faiths challenged the decision by the Montgomery County, Maryland, board of education to make mandatory a new “inclusivity” storybook series, featuring pride parades, gender transitioning, preferred pr

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