Surprise from a Alito Court?
“It’s like blatant viewpoint discrimination,” Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. said of the law.
Most of the court’s conservative justices expressed doubts about the argument that the law does not infringe on the free speech rights of therapists. So, too, did Justice Elena Kagan, who echoed Alito’s concern about discriminating among different views, which the First Amendment generally prohibits the government from doing.
The case is the first major one of a new term that promises to be consequential for gay and transgender rights. In the coming months, the justices will weigh the legality of state laws banning transgender people from playing on girls’ and women’s sports teams at schools and universities….
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