TRAVEL BAN GETS BURNED AGAIN | Landmark LGBT Case At SCOTUS | Icing On The Cake Cake Cake Cake
September 8, 2017
ANOTHA ONE BITES THE DUST
|Yesterday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously declined to overturn a district court judge’s ruling that the Trump administration was taking too narrow a view of an exception the Supreme Court carved out from the travel ban in June. The court rejected the administration’s attempt to deny grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins of Americans a temporary exemption from the controversial executive order. This is just the latest judicial loss PRESIDENT TRUMP has been hit with over his travel ban policy.
NICE TO KNOW YA LET'S DO IT AGAIN
|Ding ding ding – we’re going another round. ln the least shocking news of the week, the Justice Department has said that it will appeal the decision of the 9th Circuit and take PRESIDENT TRUMP’S travel ban all the way to the Supreme Court.
ONLY I CAN MENTION ME
|The Supreme Court just got a yuge case with the potential to render a landmark decision about discrimination. Advocates are hoping SCOTUS will rule on whether federal civil rights laws protect gay, lesbian and bisexual people from being discriminated against while on the job. Attorneys are representing Jameka Evans who claims she was discriminated against because of her “perceived sexual orientation.”
NOW HERE'S THE ICING ON THE CAKE CAKE CAKE CAKE
|The Trump administration Thursday decided to side with a Colorado bakery owner who is arguing to the Supreme Court that he shouldn’t have to make a cake for a same-sex wedding because it violates his religious beliefs. In its filing with SCOTUS, the Justice Department announced that it agrees with the cakeshop’s arguments because “where a public accommodations law compels someone to create expression for a particular person or entity and to participate, literally or figuratively, in a ceremony or other expressive event” it becomes an “intrusion” on the First Amendment.
TOO GOOD AT GOODBYES
|“Two Senate Democrats said Thursday they will block yet another nominee from President Donald Trump to the nation’s powerful appellate courts — inflaming a growing battle between Democratic senators and the White House over judicial candidates.” Seung Min Kim with POLITICO reports on the Dems already to say bye-bye-bye to Trump’s latest judicial picks.
DESSERT
|Because it’s Friday and you’ve earned it… “On the Basics of Sex” just got a whole lot steamier. Hollywood handsome man ARMIE HAMMER has signed on to join FELICITY JONES in the upcoming biopic about JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG. In the film titled, “On the Basis of Sex,” Jones will portray Ginsburg and Hammer will play her husband, MARTY GINSBURG.