LGBTQ news and entertainment
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled states can ban transgender girls and women from competing in women’s school sports, delivering a devastating defeat to trans students who had asked the justices to let them participate in public school life as themselves. Continue reading “Supreme Court: States Can Ban Transgender Girls From Women’s Sports”
Donald Trump will have to pay the $5 million in damages that he owes writer E. Jean Carroll after the Supreme Court declined to hear his appeal of the verdict.
Today’s decision is a most likely the end of Trump’s legal efforts to contest the jury verdict finding that he sexually abused Ms. Carroll in the mid-1990s in a department store dressing room. Continue reading “Supreme Court Allows Trump’s $5 Million Sex Abuse Verdict To Stand”
In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed a Mississippi law permitting election officials to count mail-in ballots that are postmarked on Election Day, even if they arrive up to five days later.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote the opinion, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and all three of the court’s liberal justices. Continue reading “Supreme Court Rules Against RNC On Mail-In Ballots”
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a majority Black congressional district in Louisiana today. The ruling essentially waters down the Voting Rights Act (VRA), the landmark civil rights law.
The ruling effectively narrows Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits gerrymandering along racial lines. Continue reading “Supreme Court Strikes Down Majority Black Congressional District”
It seems as though something may be afoot behind-the-scenes in terms of the U.S. Supreme Court as two prominent Senate Republicans made comments today on possible SCOTUS nominees. Continue reading “Senate Republicans ‘Would Be Prepared’ For Possible Supreme Court Nominee”
In this episode of The Randy Report podcast, the US Supreme Court has ruled Colorado’s ban on so-called “conversion therapy” violates ‘free speech’ rights. Plus…
• The city of Boise has found a clever workaround to a law banning Pride flags from local government buildings
• What to watch: A TV judge put a homophobic father on blast in an episode of Equal Justice that’s gone viral. Link to watch episode for free here.
All that and more in this episode of The Randy Report.
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments today challenging the issue of birthright citizenship which is guaranteed by the 14th Amendment.
The justices appeared skeptical of Team Trump’s arguments that the president can deny citizenship to babies born to parents without permanent immigration status. Continue reading “Supreme Court Appears Skeptical Of Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Argument”
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that a Colorado law banning so-called “conversion therapy” for minors violates free speech rights of professional therapists. Continue reading “Supreme Court Rules Against Colorado’s Conversion Therapy Ban”
The U.S. Supreme Court appears skeptical of Mississippi’s mail-in ballot law in a case that could change the way that states handle mail-in ballots throughout the country. Continue reading “Supreme Court Seems Inclined To Reject Mail-In Ballot Law”
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Tuesday seemed inclined to uphold a pair of state laws barring the participation of transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports teams.
The two cases challenge laws in West Virginia and Idaho, which specify participation on girls sports teams be based on “biological sex,” defined as a person’s sex assigned at birth. Continue reading “Supreme Court Appears Inclined To Uphold Ban On Trans Girls In Sports”