Supreme Court Strikes Down Colorado Ban On ‘Conversion Therapy’ for Minors
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the lone dissent from the ruling.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the lone dissent from the ruling.
The decision brought rebuke from women’s advocates, who argued that the filing was a means of avoiding a potentially unfavorable Supreme Court ruling.
Texas is one of 24 states that has enacted age verification laws to access pornography on the internet in recent years.
The court’s conservatives and swing votes formed the majority — Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, and Chief Justice John Roberts.
Alito was joined in the dissent by Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh.
The dispute before the high court is one of several legal challenges that have arisen after Trump issued numerous executive orders after taking office last month.
In its Friday decision, the Supreme Court ordered that courts ‘may not defer to an agency interpretation of the law’ merely because a law’s intent is unclear.
The Supreme Court’s ruling, written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, said that though homelessness is a complex issue, the courts have no right to interfere with local communities’ attempts to solve it.
While Idaho law allows abortions only in cases to save the life of the mother, the court now holds that this is too narrow an exception.
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