• The Supreme Court upheld Washington state’s law banning “conversion therapy” for minors, despite dissent from three conservative justices.
  • An appellate panel struck down local bans on conversion therapy in Florida, deeming them an unconstitutional restriction on counselors’ speech.
  • Justice Clarence Thomas argued that the court should have taken up the case and considered the First Amendment challenge to the law.
  • BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    This is a nice signal that Gorsuch and Barrett do have some level of sincerity in their beliefs about powers reserved to states.

    This isn’t to say that they’re good, but they operate on a very different level than Alito and Thomas, whose primary ideology seems to be whatever owns the libs the most.