It looks like Justice Anthony Kennedy will provide the key vote again, in Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, argued today in the U.S. Supreme Court. The case pits a cake baker’s free speech claim against the state’s efforts to provide equal access to goods and services regardless of
In December, the Court will hear argument in Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. A cake baker claims that a Colorado civil rights law, which requires him, as a merchant serving the public, to provide his product on a nondiscriminatory basis to gay people for their weddings, unconstitutionally compels
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Today, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Gill v. Whitford, in which