Trump administration asks to argue an antigay bakers case at the Supreme Court

[DonViejo]

By Alex Bollinger · Thursday, October 26, 2017

The Trump administration has petitioned the Supreme Court to allow it to argue against anti-discrimination laws in a case involving an anti-gay baker, the Washington Times is reporting.

In 2012, Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips refused to bake a cake for a gay couple’s wedding reception. The couple sued under Colorado‘s anti-discrimination law and won the case at the state-level, but the Supreme Court recently agreed to hear the case earlier this year.

Last month, the Department of Justice filed a brief that sided with Phillips and argued that states do not have the same interest in fighting anti-gay discrimination that they have fighting racial discrimination. Now the Solicitor General has petitioned for time to argue the case in front of the Supreme Court.

“As a general matter, the United States has a substantial interest in the preservation of federal constitutional rights of free expression,” solicitor general Noel Francisco wrote in a motion.


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https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2017/10/trump-administration-asks-argue-antigay-bakers-case-supreme-court/

[ck4829]

1. Putting equal rights at the mercy of tainted elections has consequences

[Freethinker65]

2. Let Sessions argue it himself. He would have his ass handed to him in court

[C_U_L8R]

3. Rightwingers make me vomit

To even suggest that their bigotry, racism, sexism and xenophobia
somehow 'trump' other people's right to exist. Freedom of Speech, my ass.

[hopeforchange2008]

4. If you don't want to serve the public get out of the marketplace /eom