Supreme Court Rules Businesses Can Discriminate Against Gay People
"Today is a sad day in American constitutional law and in the lives of LGBT people," Sonia Sotomayor wrote in her dissenting opinion
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"Today is a sad day in American constitutional law and in the lives of LGBT people," Sonia Sotomayor wrote in her dissenting opinion
We can do it. we have been wanting to overrule abortion, overrule affirmative action. elections have consequences. i think if you take anything from these decisions, that is what i take from it. >> okay, i want to ask you a little bit more about 303 creative. where is the line here. we are going to take a couple of poll's hear from some of these decisions. the majority opinion, tolerance, not coercion is the nation's answer. envisions the united states has a rich and complex place where all persons are free to think and speak as they wish. in her dissent, she said today, the court for the firs...
In a blow to lgbt rights, the us supreme court has ruled that the constitutional right to free speech allows certain businesses to refuse to provide services for same—sex weddings, ruling in favour of a web designer who cited her christian beliefs in challenging a colorado anti—discrimination law. 0ur correspondentjessica parker is in washington. she is there at the supreme court, and it has been a busy couple of days. let's take it in stages. tell us more about this particular ruling, first of all.— ruling, first of all. this was a case brought _ ruling, first of all. this was a case br...
Audience in the courtroom about the bostack ruling that he wrote in 2020, and that is a case where he was with the majority to expand lgbtq rights in the workplace. so, he wanted to carefully distinguish what was being precluded here. then when it was time for justice sotomayor to speak on the part of the dissenters, and the three liberal justices as you laid out, and she said, this case is not about speech, but it is conduct and status. it is about allowing a website designer to put out a sign that says same sex couples need not come here. she drew a contrast to all that judge gorsuch had lai...
What has this term taught us about the roberts court? >> well, it's interesting the split we saw on the student loans. i think the country is split, and i think the -- the roberts court particularly under the last three years when you had the additions of barrett and gorsuch and kavanaugh sort of reflects the split but for the conservative side. so they have the majority on the supreme court, so that's how the decisions are going to come out. so it's really, you know, about the split of the country, but they just had more seats on supreme court. >> i want to bring up something justice sotomayo...