SCOTUS

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  Showdown over Gorsuch’s Supreme Court confirmation has far-reaching consequences

  Saturday, April 1, 2017

  Republican leaders will likely have to change Senate rules so that Gorsuch can be confirmed with a simple majority, instead of the 60 votes currently required.

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  Attorneys general file brief in support of trans teen Gavin Grimm’s SCOTUS case

  Saturday, March 4, 2017

  The friend-of-the-court brief, filed by 19 attorneys general, says that allowing transgender people to use bathrooms matching their gender creates no public safety, privacy or financial burdens.

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  Supreme Court will hear Gavin Grimm’s landmark transgender rights case in March

  Sunday, February 5, 2017

  Transgender teen Gavin Grimm is suing his Virginia high school for the right to use the restroom and locker room that corresponds with his gender.

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  Gay attorney says Trump’s SCOTUS pick called his marriage ‘a wonderful thing’

  Saturday, February 4, 2017

  The gay former law clerk for Trump's Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch said he never got the impression the judge was homophobic.

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  Trump reveals his final Supreme Court justice wish list

  Saturday, September 24, 2016

  Also listed: Timothy Tymkovich, who argued in front of the Colorado Supreme Court to oppose legal protections for gays and lesbians.

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  Teen at center of ‘bathroom bill’ case speaks out: ‘I’m just a person’

  Monday, September 5, 2016

  The fate of Grimm's case — the first of its kind to land in the Supreme Court — is now in the hands of its eight justices.

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  Colorado baker takes gay wedding cake case to the U.S. Supreme Court

  Sunday, July 24, 2016

  The Colorado baker claims that being forced to make wedding cakes for same-sex couples violates his right to freedom of speech.

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