#Supreme Court weakened Colorado’s nondiscrimination law. What’s next for LGBTQ rights?

#Supreme Court weakened Colorado’s nondiscrimination law. What’s next for LGBTQ rights?

The Supreme Court in an expected move on Friday ruled that Lorie Smith, a Colorado-based Christian web designer, is not beholden to a state law prohibiting discrimination in public accommodations and may legally refuse services to LGBTQ people. The ruling, which states that Colorado’s anti-discrimination law violates Smith’s First Amendment rights by requiring her to create…

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#Student loan debt and the Supreme Court: Five takeaways

#Student loan debt and the Supreme Court: Five takeaways

The Supreme Court on Friday struck down President Biden’s student debt relief plan, with the court’s six conservatives ruling the administration did not have the power to forgive loans for more than 40 million borrowers. The decision is a major win for Republicans who declared the plan unfair and balked at the $400 billion price…

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#Justice Jackson rips Supreme Court’s ‘ostrich-like’ logic on affirmative action 

#Justice Jackson rips Supreme Court’s ‘ostrich-like’ logic on affirmative action 

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson blasted the Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action Thursday, warning that its decision “makes things worse, not better” for race relations. “The best that can be said of the majority’s perspective is that it proceeds (ostrich-like) from the hope that preventing consideration of race will end racism,” Jackson wrote in a dissenting…

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#Biden digging for dollars in wealthy Democratic enclaves

#Biden digging for dollars in wealthy Democratic enclaves

President Biden has targeted blue strongholds ahead of his first fundraising deadline, raking in cash from reliable Democratic donors to give his reelection bid an early boost. The president has fundraised in high-income ZIP codes in Chicago, Maryland, San Francisco, Connecticut and New York City just in the last month — all friendly places for Democrats.  The sprint…

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#RFK Jr.: ‘I’m proud that President Trump likes me’

#RFK Jr.: ‘I’m proud that President Trump likes me’

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. refused to criticize former President Trump on Wednesday night and said he was flattered by recent comments from Trump praising him as a “common-sense guy.” Asked by moderator Elizabeth Vargas what Kennedy thinks about Trump, Kennedy said: “I’m not going to attack other people personally.” He then went a step further,…

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