
The Guardian - 19 hours 38 min ago
Doug Evans, a former prosecutor, removed nearly all Black jurors in Terry Pitchford's 2006 trial, raising legal questions The supreme court is hearing arguments on Tuesday about racial bias in jury selection in a death penalty case stemming from Mississippi. Doug Evans, a now-retired prosecutor, removed all but one Black person from a jury that convicted Terry Pitchford of capital murder in 2006. The judge, Joseph Loper, allowed the juror strikes and Mississippi's supreme court upheld the...

Nation Review - 19 hours 44 min ago
The Court ruled in an 8-1 decision that the law violates the First Amendment free speech rights of licensed counselors.

Daily Signal - 19 hours 51 min ago
The Supreme Court held in an 8-1 ruling on Tuesday that a Colorado ban on "conversion therapy" for counselors unlawfully regulates speech and is viewpoint... Read More The post BREAKING: High Court Strikes Down Colorado Gag Rule for Christian Counselors appeared first on The Daily Signal .

The Guardian - 19 hours 51 min ago
Court in 8-1 decision sides with Christian counselor who argues law banning the practice violates first amendment The supreme court on Tuesday ruled against a law banning "conversion therapy" for LGBTQ+ kids in Colorado, one of about two dozen states that ban the discredited practice. An 8-1 high court majority sided with a Christian counselor who argued the law banning "conversion therapy" violates the first amendment. The justices agreed that the law raises free speech concerns...

New York Times - 19 hours 54 min ago
Kaley Chiles, a licensed professional counselor, at her office in Colorado Springs in September. Mrs. Chiles filed suit in 2022 over Colorado's ban on conversion therapy for minors.

NBC News - 19 hours 55 min ago
The Supreme Court ruled that Colorado's ban on conversion therapy aimed at youths violates the free speech rights of a conservative Christian therapist. NBC News' Ryan Reilly reports on the court's decision, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissent and how the ruling could be applied.

Los Angeles Times - 19 hours 58 min ago
California was the first state to prohibit "conversion therapy," which seeks to change the sexual orientation of minors.

NY Post - 19 hours 59 min ago
"We do not doubt that the question how best to help minors' struggling with issues of gender identity or sexual orientation is presently a subject of fierce public debate,'" Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the majority.

The Hill - 20 hours 2 min ago
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissented alone as the Supreme Court sided 8-1 with a Christian counselor on Tuesday in her free speech challenge to Colorado's ban on counselors attempting to change a minor's sexual orientation or gender identity. "To do anything else opens a dangerous can of worms," Jackson wrote. "It threatens to impair States' ability to regulate the provision of medical care in...

Huffington Post - 20 hours 9 min ago
The justices ruled 8-1, with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson as the lone dissenter.

The Hill - 20 hours 10 min ago
The Supreme Court sided with a Christian counselor on Tuesday in her free speech challenge to Colorado's ban on counselors attempting to change a minor's sexual orientation or gender identity. Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing for the 8-1 majority, said lower courts used too lenient a standard in upholding the ban. The law regulates counselors' speech in an attempt to silence a certain viewpoint, Gorsuch wrote. "Fortunately, that is not the world the First Amendment envisions...

NBC News - 20 hours 12 min ago
The Supreme Court ruled that Colorado's ban on conversion therapy for LGBTQ youth violates the free speech rights of a conservative Christian therapist.

Forbes - 20 hours 15 min ago
The court ruled Colorado's conversion therapy ban unlawfully regulates speech.

Newser - 21 hours 44 min ago
Spain's highest court has drawn a sharp line on consent, ruling that an unsolicited hand-kiss can amount to sexual assault. The Supreme Court upheld a fine of 1,620 euros (about $1,850) against a man who approached a woman at a Madrid bus stop, kissed her hand, and signaled...

Nation Review - 22 hours 26 min ago
1958 In Trop v. Dulles, the Supreme Court, by a 5 to 4 vote, invalidates the sentence of forfeiture of citizenship imposed on a soldier who deserted…...

The Hill - 22 hours 26 min ago
Disenfranchising babies born on American soil is an irresponsible and extreme idea.

The Hill - 22 hours 31 min ago
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. Dan Caine will brief reporters on Tuesday morning, in the fifth week of the Iran conflict. The Supreme Court will release opinions Tuesday morning as it gears up for Wednesday's oral arguments about President Trump's birthright citizenship restrictions. The standoff over Department of Homeland Security funding...

BBC - 22 hours 48 min ago
The Supreme Court found that a man had done more than harass a woman by kissing her hand as there had been "a clear sexual component" to his behaviour.