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WASHINGTON D.C. — (08-05-21) — President Joe Biden makes history again as he nominates the first LGBT federal appeals court nominee, Vermont Supreme Court Justice Beth Robinson, who played a critical role in paving the way for the legalization of same-sex marriage. Justice Beth Robinson has been an associate justice on the Vermont Supreme Court [...]
DENVER, CO — (07-31-21) — A Colorado based homophobic web designer lost her challenge to Colorado's anti-discrimination law last week in a suit she filed against the state because she didn't want to design wedding websites for gay couples. Last Monday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit ruled 2 – 1 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) — Outrage over Michigan Judge Christopher Murray's ruling on Monday that allows companies to discriminate against LGBT customers. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, the first openly LGBT person to be elected to a statewide office in Michigan, said that she plans to appeal Monday's court ruling that found Michigan’s civil rights [...]
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. — (06-18-20) — 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 [...]
NEW ORLEANS, LA — (01-29-20) — A federal appeals court voted on Wednesday against rehearing an Obamacare legal challenge, after a three-judge panel struck down along party lines, the healthcare law's individual mandate. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals voted 8-6 on Wednesday, against rehearing the case, after one of the judges asked for a [...]