"Justice Kagan says Jackson's dissent contradicts itself"
"Colorado was cruising for a judicial bruising when it struggled to defend its ban on so-called conversion therapy for minors at the Supreme Court last fall, with several justices skeptical of its last-ditch argument that plaintiff and licensed counselor Kaley Chiles didn't actually violate the law with her talk therapy for kids struggling with gender identity and sexual orientation.
"That bruising came down Tuesday in the form of an 8-1 ruling against the law, with only Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissenting, in a worrying sign for similar bans in half the states but also for red states that might try to ban so-called gender affirming counseling.
"The issuance of the majority opinion, a slim 23 pages without the summary, three months before the court typically issues its final decisions of the term, showed how closely aligned the six right-coded and two left-coded justices were on the core issues of the case.
"The court reached the same tally at least twice in high-profile First Amendment cases in the past five years.
"In 2021, over a lone dissent by Chief Justice John Roberts, SCOTUS authorized lawsuits against public officials such as university officials for censorship without measurable economic harm to the victims, in that case student evangelists.
"Months later, with Justice Clarence Thomas in dissent, SCOTUS prohibited K-12 schools from regulating student speech in contexts that are not school-supervised, including social media outside of school hours, based on the speculative threat of disruption on campus." . . .
SCOTUS: Colorado Can’t Ban Counselors from Helping Minors Escape LGBTQ Ideology
“Counselors walking alongside these young people shouldn’t be limited to promoting state-approved goals like gender transition, which often leads to harmful drugs and surgeries. The Supreme Court’s ruling is a victory for counselors and, more importantly, kids and families everywhere.”
Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Not the Idiot You Think She Is – HotAir
"The reason why KBJ couldn't provide a definition of a woman is not that she has none; it is because the definition literally does not exist until she conjures it in whatever context she needs to. As with her assertion about state power and treating trans kids, it all depends on the context. What she believes about state power depends entirely on whether it gets her the outcome she wants."
. . . "Now, it is still possible that KBJ is simply a DEI hire without much of a brain in her head, but the fact that she makes no sense to us is not evidence of that. When I was in graduate school ran into perfectly nice and relatively smart people who would argue that physics isn't real; it is a social construct. Gravity exists solely because we believe it does."
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