The US Supreme Court appears likely to uphold a medical ban affecting trans youth
At oral arguments, the justices divided on ideological lines
IN 2020 Justice Neil Gorsuch delighted progressives and infuriated many on the right when he wrote, for a 6-3 majority, that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 barred discrimination against gay, lesbian and transgender employees. That ruling, Bostock v Clayton County, so alarmed Josh Hawley, Missouri’s junior senator, that he rose on the Senate floor to warn against the “end of the conservative legal movement....as we know it”.
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United States December 7th 2024
- Would you put Pete Hegseth second in America’s chain of command?
- A health-care CEO is murdered in Manhattan
- The US Supreme Court appears likely to uphold a medical ban affecting trans youth
- The FDA does not know what chemicals are added to foods
- Donald Trump may find it harder to dominate America’s conversation
- Dinesh D’Souza admits his documentary was fiction
- Kash Patel, Donald Trump’s wizard, wants to reform the FBI
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An Ivy League graduate is charged over Brian Thompson’s murder
He appears to be an unusual sort of radical
America’s best-known practitioner of youth gender medicine is being sued
A patient of Johanna Olson-Kennedy thinks she has been negligent
Kash Patel, Donald Trump’s wizard, wants to reform the FBI
But his list of political enemies would be a scary place to start
Dinesh D’Souza admits his documentary was fiction
An influential political documentary was based on falsehood
The FDA does not know what chemicals are added to foods
A rule concocted in the 1950s for vinegar and spices has had unintended effects