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Supreme Court debates same-sex couple discrimination case
A Colorado web designer's case reached the Supreme Court, arguing that she should not be compelled by the state to design wedding websites for same-sex couples. NBC News' News Kelly O'Donnell has more details about the justices' questions and what they could indicate.
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The Supreme Court Could Chop Away at Anti-Discrimination Law Based on Literally Nothing
The Supreme Court's phantom docket -the cases with phantasmal plaintiffs to help, entirely speculative wrongs to fix, or some combination thereof-returned in full force on Monday. The justices struggled with exactly what to do in 303 Creative v. Elenis, a case where social conservatives hope to limit anti-discrimination laws that currently protect LGBTQ Americans. Though the case raises a familiar constitutional question-one that the high court has touched on in the recent past-it does so in this instance while being almost entirely unmoored from any factual record or dispute. Plaintiff...
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Is the Supreme Court about to sanction discrimination against LGBTQ people?
Supreme Court case on same-sex marriage and Colorado web designer 303 Creative that claims free speech protects her from making gay marriage sites could allow for LGBTQ discrimination.
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The Easy-to-Miss Twist That Makes SCOTUS' New Gay Rights Case So Strange
A graphic designer refuses to make custom websites for same-sex weddings. Colorado says that's fine.
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Supreme Court justices spar in latest clash of religion and LGBTQ+ rights in Colorado
The Supreme Court's conservative majority is sounding sympathetic to a Christian graphic artist who objects to designing wedding websites for gay couples.
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SCOTUS hears case arguing LGBTQ rights, freedom of speech violations
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court is tasked with deciding whether a wedding website designer is allowed to refuse to make websites for same-sex couples.
A crowd gathered outside the Supreme Court on Monday as the justices considered whether anti-discrimination laws violate the First Amendment.
“Colorado is trying to force me to create custom, unique artwork to promote ideas inconsistent with my faith and the core of who I am ,” website designer Lori Smith said.
Smith says Colorado would be violating her freedom of speech if it forces her to create websites for same-sex weddings and she's...
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Supreme Court hears case of Colorado wedding website aiming to refuse gay marriage work
The Supreme Court is eyeing Colorado's law barring businesses from discriminating against gay, lesbian or transgender people in a free-speech challenge.
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