Supreme Court takes up transgender school bathroom case

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to take up a case concerning a transgender high school student who is seeking to use the boys' bathroom at school.

The case, which should be heard this term, marks the first time the Supreme Court has considered the controversial issue playing out across the country, most notably in North Carolina, where the Justice Department has filed a civil rights suit against the state's so-called bathroom law.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/28/politics/supreme-court-takes-up-transgender-school-bathroom-case/index.html?adkey=bn

[PoliticAverse]

1. Good. n/t

[COLGATE4]

2. Depends on how the preceding court decided the case.

With the probably 4/4 split on the Supreme Court (thanks to the Rethugs' refusal to consider Obama's candidate to fill the ninth vacancy) the holding of that court will be the governing law.