House Joint Memorial 17 is a formal legislative request for the Supreme Court to overturn its 2015 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges. The measure argues that the decision establishing the constitutional right of same-sex couple to legally marry is "at odds with the Constitution of the United States and the principles upon which the United States is established."
Much has been written about the differing strategies that Kagan and Jackson have adopted in their roles as members of the court's liberal minority: While Kagan takes a more institutionalist approach aimed at moderating the conservative majority, Jackson keeps pulling the fire alarm to warn the public about what she sees as the court's failure to rein in the current administration.
The order blocks for now a state law that bans automatic parental notification requirements if students change their pronouns or gender expression at school. It comes after religious parents and educators challenged California school policies aimed at preventing schools from outing students to their families. Two sets of Catholic parents represented by the Thomas More Society say it caused schools to mislead them and secretly facilitate the children's social transition despite their objections.
Two sets of Catholic parents represented by the Thomas More Society say it caused schools to mislead them and secretly facilitate the children's social transition despite their objections. California argued that students have the right to privacy about their gender expression, especially if they fear rejection from their families, and school policies are aimed at striking a balance with parents' rights.
I've read the book! Do you think it's fair to say that all that is done in Uncle Bobby's Wedding is to expose children to the fact that there are men who marry other men? I don't think anybody can read that and say, well, this is just telling children that there are occasions when men marry other men, that Uncle Bobby gets married to his boyfriend, Jamie.
The conference's opposition to stripping folks of birthright citizenship "is motivated by their firmly held belief that each person is endowed by God with an inherent dignity that confers certain universal, inviolable, and inalienable rights."
The Supreme Court said Monday that it will hear from oil and gas companies trying to block lawsuits seeking to hold the industry liable for billions of dollars in damage linked to climate change. The conservative-majority court agreed to take up a case from Boulder, Colorado, among a series of lawsuits alleging the companies deceived the public about how fossil fuels contribute to climate change.
Tonight, it appears that the honeymoon period between President Trump and his handpicked Supreme Court justices is over, at least for two of them. Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch are now officially on Trump's bad list after they sided with the liberal justices to torpedo his tariffs. Now, Trump took that personally and didn't hold back his frustration.
