What outfits do lawyers wear to court? Law suits!
(Cue groans at my terrible pun.)
On a more serious note, it’s been the week for Supreme Court decisions: a case concerning abortions for medical emergencies in Idaho; an Oregon city’s law restricting homeless camps; a dispute over the government’s effort to restrict misinformation on social media on topics including COVID-19; the overrule of Chevron, a legal doctrine which told courts to defer to an agency’s reasonable interpretation in regulatory disputes when the governing law is ambiguous; and others.
The Supreme Court also agreed June 24 to hear a challenge this fall to a Tennessee state law banning certain types of medical or surgical gender reassignment procedures for minors who identify as transgender, its first major step toward weighing in on the controversial culture-war issue. The American College of Pediatricians also recently issued a declaration urging the nation’s medical organizations to halt hormonal and surgical interventions on children with gender dysphoria and not to double down on these practices amid mounting evidence of their harm.
OSV News covered these significant Supreme court cases and what they mean for U.S. Catholics along with other events in public life this week. I hope you are edified by our reporting.
Megan Marley
Digital Editor
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