effectively limits lgbtq rights. and democratic governor jarod pollis who himself is gay called it misguided. he went onto say in a statement, quote, these rulings run counter to colorado values and we ll continue to fight against bigotry and discrimination in all their ugly forms. joining us now cnn senior political correspondent abby philip. now the court has made this ruling here and we re looking to the future where does anti-discrimination legislation go from here? i think this is going to be the big question because the court in this ruling has now opened the door to people in all kinds of lines of work that could be seen as expressive or creative potential saying to prospective clients my beliefs do not align with yours and i do not want to endorse your beliefs by expressing myself in a way that will provide you with service. where does that end, right? are we talking about wedding
what do we always say, son? liberty mutual customizes your car insurance. so you only pay for what you need. that s my boy. stay off the freeways! only pay for what you need. liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. we are following huge ripples coming from these two major supreme court decisions released today. in one of those rulings the court sided with a colorado website designer who is a christian who didn t want to work with same-sex couples. this is a decision that
was in fact viewed as the most likely outcome and the conservative supreme court would strike this down. i m told the president this morning shortly after the decision came down he got all his senior aides together and met for hours in the office with those aides to finalize how the administration will respond. we re going to hear those steps from the president at some point this hour. the president made clear he thought this program would have been a lifeline for tens of millions of americans, but he made clear he s going to still continue to do what he can to provide that lifeline saying, quote, i believe the court s decision to strike down our student debt relief plan is wrong, but i ll stop at nothing to find other ways to deliver relief to hardworking middle class families. my administration will continue to work to bring the promise of higher education to every american. and the president today expect him to also outline other steps that his administration has taken to try and ad
the state can t compel the speech of this individual in this case. and so that s sort of the essential part of the holding. it goes back to a long line of cases involving the first amendment of compelled speech cases. can you force a student to say the pledge of allegiance, right? can the state require somebody to speak in a creative or verbal way, and in this court the court is saying the first amendment prohibits the state from forcing them to do that on penalty of being put in an educational program or facing other types of penalties, and that s the issue at least for the majority. now, as you know there s a strong dissent that lays out the other side, but that s what the majority at least are saying in this case. there are questions about how this might impact politics moving forward as we saw last year with the roe v. wade decision to overturn precedent there, democrats pounced on that as an issue for the mid-terms, and there are questions about how both parties might capitalize
and perhaps me understand as well when you look at the affirmative action decision and the decision today on this web designer, why can schools not in effect discriminate if that s the right word based on racial background, but this web designer based on a freedom of expression argument can make a decision not to do business with someone or put out a message that they consider not in line with their views? right, so what the court is saying here in this case in the opinion authored by justice gorsuch is that the first amendment protects the right of individuals to not speak in a way that they don t want to, to not be compelled to speak by the state. colorado says you must, you know, take anybody who wants a website, they tried this earlier with a bait shop aif you recall, and you must serve that person and create a website. these websites according to the court in its view have significant creative expression in them. they re about celebrating things and the like, and as a result