The case is about whether you can compel someone to speak against their beliefs. The court didn't decide which side wins really, but it said that a human rights commission in the early stages of the case made comments hostile to religion. It's not clear that the logic of the web designer's argument has a natural stopping point. But how is refusing service just because of someone's race or gender or sexual orientation, in this case, not just clear discrimination against a protected class?
The last Supreme Court term was a blockbuster. The justices made a number of landmark rulings, including in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which ended 50 years of the constitutional right to abortion in the United States.
The new term could be just as testing, with a series of deeply divisive cases on the docket.
Guest: Adam Liptak, a correspondent covering the United States Supreme Court for The New York Times.
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