The U.S. Supreme Court ruled June 24 that the Constitution “does not prohibit” states from banning abortion.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority seemed to signal Dec. 5 that it is prepared to allow certain business owners to violate state laws prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation in public accommodations.
In a ruling that one legal activist said will put LGBT rights “on the chopping block,” the U.S. Supreme Court on June 24 ruled 6 to 3 that the U.S. Constitution “does not prohibit” states from banning abortion.
Nine years after telling a gay couple she could not prepare a flower arrangement for their wedding because of her religious beliefs, the owner of a flower shop in Washington State has agreed to pay $5,000 to settle the dispute and withdraw her long-shot bid to get the U.S. Supreme Court to rule in her favor.
LGBT issues were front and center in Day Two of the confirmation hearing for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, with Democrats and even a few Republicans attempting to clarify how she might approach such issues on the high court.
(WB) President Joe Biden, on his first day in office Wednesday after taking the Oath of Office, is set to sign an executive order directing federal agencies across the board to implement the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic ruling against anti-LGBT discrimination under federal law.
The U.S. Supreme Court took dramatic action on three LGBT-related cases today, with results that could be described as bad, good, and to-be-determined.
The Department of Justice wants to speak on behalf of a Colorado baker who denied a gay couple a wedding cake.
On the last day of the 2020-21 session, the U.S. Supreme issued relief and worry for the LGBT community.
Was it a “significant” victory for LGBT people or another sign of “death by a thousand cuts” for LGBT equal rights? Was it an “important win for religious liberty” or a “failure”?
Martin Jenkins, a retired justice and lawyer and gay Black man, was nominated to the California Supreme Court on Monday.
Governor Ron DeSantis appointed a religious right crusader to the Florida Supreme Court on Monday.
Three Iowa Supreme Court justices who helped legalize gay marriage in the state seven years ago will face voters on Nov. 8 for the first time since the ruling, but they are refusing to campaign for their jobs because they argue the courts should remain above politics.
Teri Johnston, the first lesbian mayor of Key West, won her bid at a second term as the island’s mayor Tuesday night capturing 59% of the vote.
Tina Kotek won a hard-fought campaign for Oregon Governor, promising to unite a state ravaged by homelessness and crime.
A purported draft of what is believed to be the U.S. Supreme Court’s upcoming ruling on whether to overturn a long-standing decision protecting the right to abortion not only indicates the court will overturn that decision – Roe v. Wade — but also that it is poised to overturn landmark pro-LGBT decisions.
On Tuesday, March 14 President Trump announced that his replacement for the late Justice Antonin Scalia would be Neil Gorsuch, a justice who has served for ten years as a George W. Bush-appointed judge on the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of appeals.
President Donald Trump announced Sept. 26 his nominee to replace U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and, as expected, it is jurist LGBT groups are expected to vehemently oppose.
Chief Justice John Roberts and conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh voted with the U.S. Supreme Court’s three liberal-leaning justices Sept. 14 to reject a request that would have undermined a New York City law prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation in public accommodations.
A case to be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court April 28 presents one of those rare instances in which different LGBT groups are on opposite sides.
As the old adage goes, “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” Take Mart Crowley’s groundbreaking 1968 play, “The Boys in the Band,” as an example.
Priests do not have to report sexual abuse discovered during confession, Louisiana Supreme Court ruled on Friday.
(WB) Charlie Craig and David Mullins didn’t expect to be the new face of the LGBT rights movement, but that responsibility will be thrust upon them in a matter of weeks as the U.S. Supreme Court hears their case over being denied a wedding cake in Colorado at Masterpiece Cakeshop.
The Mississippi Supreme Court will soon decide if a lesbian couple can both be labeled as the biological parent now that that they are divorced.
June is the final month of the U.S. Supreme Court’s current session and, while anticipation is not nearly so great this year for the LGBT community as it was last year, there is some concern in the air.
If men could get pregnant there would be a drive-thru abortion provider attached to every McDonald's.
You may not be able to do anything about the U.S. Senate ratifying a justice that is going to set back civil rights by a century, but you can cast a ballot against some of the judges Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis have appointed to the bench in Florida.
Two-year-old Elsia (ID A661393) wants to make lots of wonderful memories with you.
President Donald Trump made a shaky pitch at 2:30 Wednesday morning that he should be declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election and that he would be “going to the U.S. Supreme Court” to make it so.
First in the spotlight as the U.S. Supreme Court begins its new session Oct. 4 is the seemingly precarious state of the right to abortion, an issue LGBT groups have long considered to be of “vital importance” to LGBT people.
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