The Latest Breaking News from Skrmetti

The constitutionality of a Colorado law that bans so-called “conversion therapy” is scheduled to go before the Supreme Court on Oct. 7, 2025. The question at the center of the case, Chiles v. Salazar, is whether a therapist who uses talk therapy to try to convince minors to change their…

A federal judge had blocked the policy, saying that it violated the Constitution’s equal protection clause and was ‘built on a foundation of irrational prejudice’

The ACLU's cert petition is denied, and several other petitions are GVR'd.

After the USA’s highest court backed states’ rights to block transgender under-18s from lifesaving medical treatments, one Tennessee mother tells Io Dodds why she and her family plan to stay and fight

The Supreme Court's ruling striking down laws banning same-sex marriage was a great victory for liberty and equality. But it should have been based on better legal reasoning.

"Yet, Dobbs did not repudiate the basis of Roe and Casey, the notion that legislatures are not empowered to enact laws based on public notions of morality. And Skrmetti refused to acknowledge that foundational basis of our republic."

The substantive due process question remains.

Justice Sotomayor is right. The majority cannot just wish away Bostock.

Justice Barrett rehabilitates Footnote 4, gives credence to Justice Kennedy's animus jurisprudence, and all but says that gays who were affected by a "legacy of de jure discrimination" are a suspect class.