A Key Precedent in Conversion Therapy Case Overturned Limits on Speech

The ruling, usually referred to as NIFLA, arose from a First Amendment challenge to California law regulating “crisis pregnancy centers.”

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What Is Strict Scrutiny? Here’s Why It Matters in Colorado Supreme Court Case.

It is the most demanding form of judicial review. If it applies, Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy is probably doomed.

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Supreme Court Hears Free Speech Challenge to Ban on Conversion Therapy

The court’s ruling in the Colorado case will have implications for more than 20 other states with similar laws.

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With Sébastien Lecornu’s Resignation, France Faces Increasing Turmoil

The record-fast collapse of yet another government confronts President Emmanuel Macron and his country with an intensifying crisis.

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Treasury Defends Minting a $1 Trump Coin Despite 1866 Law

The Treasury Department said that a 2020 collectible coinage law allows a living person to appear on U.S. currency.

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Shutdown Politics Has Republicans Singing Government’s Praises

As Republicans try to pin blame for shutdown damage on Democrats, they are hailing a federal bureaucracy they normally bash as wasteful and overreaching.

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Marine Park in Ontario Warns It May Euthanize Beluga Whales Without Cash Infusion

The government has barred Marineland from shipping its whales to an aquarium in China so the park is threatening to put the whales down.

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Can Conversion Therapy Be Banned? Supreme Court Will Decide on Colorado Law.

Colorado and more than 20 other states restrict therapists from trying to change the gender identity or sexual orientation of clients under age 18.

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The Problem Lurking Beneath the Church-and-State Debates in Texas

What exactly is religion, anyway?

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Partisan Shutdown Messages Could Hurt Civil Service, Experts Warn

Messages on official government channels blaming Democrats for the shutdown are one of the most significant hits yet to the longstanding wall between federal workers and politics, historians said.

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