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WASHINGTON D.C — (11-13-21) — Last Monday the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by a Catholic hospital in California to avoid a lawsuit over its refusal to let a transgender patient use its facilities to perform a hysterectomy, a procedure that is part of gender transition from female to male. SCOTUS turned [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C (08-31-21) — The U.S. Supreme Court has shocked the nation this evening by moving forward with a controversial ban on most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy that's set to take effect on Sept. 1, 2021. The American Civil Liberties Union confirmed the news late Tuesday night with the following statement: "The Supreme [...]
By: Paul Goldberg, Senior Editor | JRL CHARTS - LGBT Politics WASHINGTON D.C. — (12-15-20) — The conservative Supreme Court of the USA shocked conservatives on Monday when it declined to roll back marriage equality. Conservatives had hoped that with the appointment of Trump's three conservative justices, marriage equality would quickly be reversed. However the [...]
WASHINGTON D.C. — (12-11-20) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday rejected the lawsuit brought by Texas to overturn President-elect Joe Biden's election win, delivering a devastating blow to the long-shot legal defense campaign waged by President Donald Trump and his allies since his electoral defeat. The Supreme Court ruling was a repudiation to Donald Trump, [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — (12-10-20) — Just when you thought the Republican party could not sink any lower, more than 100 GOP members of Congress have signed an amicus brief supporting the efforts in Texas to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory in the Supreme Court. The Texas suit which is the latest in a string [...]
SACRAMENTO, CA — (10-22-20) — Governor Newsom nominated the first openly gay Black American justice to serve on the California Supreme Court. Justice Martin Jenkins, who serves as judicial appointments secretary to the governor, has now been nominated to serve on the state’s highest court. If confirmed, Newsom’s office said Justice Jenkins would be the [...]
WASHINGTON D.C. — (06-30-20) — Former President Barack Obama and former vice president president Joe Biden celebrated PRIDE LIVE reflecting in two separate videos, their LGBTQ wins at the Supreme Court. The videos posted last Friday for a virtual celebration of Pride Month, spotlighted the Supreme Court decisions for LGBTQ rights as continuation of the [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — (06-18-20) — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday to reject the Trump administration's plan to end DACA, the Obama-era program that shields nearly 700,000 young undocumented immigrants from deportation, upending a key feature of President Trump’s immigration agenda. In a stunning 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court justices said the Trump administration [...]
WASHINGTON — (06-15-20) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected the Trump administration' challenge to California's "Sanctuary Law", leaving intact rules that prohibit law enforcement officials from aiding Immigration agents in taking custody of undocumented immigrants as they are released from jail. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. were in the minority [...]
WASHINGTON D.C. — (06-15-20) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday made history in a 6-3 Decision ruling that Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Are Protected by the Civil Rights Act. The ruling that employers who fire someone “merely for being gay or transgender” is a Civil Rights violation under federal law. Such a sex-based [...]