Your year will be full of terrible franchise cash grabs that no one wants or needs?

Our cat’s name is Frankie and I like to call her Franklin Delano Meowsevelt.

Arresting them for this is dumb, but thankfully police can’t charge people with things. They can book them on felony charges, but the DA ultimately decides what (if any) charges are brought. Hopefully their arrest gets reviewed by one without republican political ambitions.

Also this part is infuriating. Plaintiffs HAVE presented this evidence, and just as importantly, the Gov’t has made no showing that they have a non-discriminatory reason for the rule! Plus, just wait until Trump makes his statement about SCOTIS upholding his rule against “radical trans ideology”!

No, we do. They’re just doing that other white person thing of pretending not to know what you’re talking about when it helps their idiot racist narrative.

This is not breaking news. The petition was filed months ago, and filing a petition means nothing about whether the court will *grant* the petition. The court has to consider all petitions, and rejects thousands of them. This will be news in the unlikely event that they grant the petition.

Ah, I see. My worry is that, because the relief Salazar requested is to enjoin enforcement of the law and declare it unconstitutional, CO would struggle to find the political will in the current climate to pass a more tailored law. But that is definitely beyond what is before SCOTUS.

Can you say more? I know the therapist is challenging the law on speech grounds, & the law only applies to licensed therapists, but the law defines conversion therapy pretty broadly. If struck down, it seems like it could allow the more abusive practices that this case doesn’t directly address.

Paulina St.

(Also the utterly confusing and inexcusable if you grew up in the US “pronouncing the ‘s’ in Illinois.”)

Don’t know about the feds, but dismissing without prejudice at an early stage isn’t all that uncommon in state court. It’s kind of an “unless we find something more to build a better case”thing.

This is really strange framing by the NYT of what happened, I think. From accounts of the hearing, the judge set a deadline of the gov’t to respond on Wednesday and a hearing on Thursday. So the only thing the judge declined to do is rule on the motion today.