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Supreme Court hands down major conservative win in near-unanimous decision
Supreme Court Hands Down Major Conservative Win In Near-Unanimous Decision
The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 Tuesday in favor of a Christian counselor who challenged a Colorado law she said could punish her for helping gender-confused children become comfortable with their own bodies instead of pursuing irreversible transgender medical procedures.The case pitted the State of Colorado against counselor Kaley Chiles, who challenged a Colorado law that prohibited counseling that “attempts or purports to change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity.” Chiles said that the law violates her First Amendment rights and has prevented her from accepting several clients.“We conclude that the courts below failed to apply sufficiently rigorous First Amendment scrutiny in this case. Start with the most obvious point. While the First Amendment protects many and varied forms of expression, the spoken word is perhaps the quintessential form of protected speech. And that is exactly the kind of expression in which Ms. Chiles seeks to engage,” Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the majority opinion.Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the lone dissenter.The ruling is...
