SCOTUS limits LGBTQ rights on the last day of pride month

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 1 July 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: Supreme Court conservatives limit LGBTQ rights in a 6-3 vote, in addition to striking down President Biden’s student debt relief plan. Also, presidential candidate Ron DeSantis speaks to extremist group Moms for Liberty. Plus, a Jan. 6th rioter is arrested near former President Barack Obama’s home. Kelley Robinson, Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost, Rep. Jared Moskowitz, Rep. Colin Allred, Paul Butler, and Kristy Greenberg join Jonathan Capehart.

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0:00.0	Now it's time for the last word with Jonathan Capehart who's in for Lawrence.
0:04.0	Good evening Jonathan.
0:04.8	Hey, good evening, Aiman.
0:05.7	It is great to see you.
0:06.8	This is our first time doing a handoff.
0:09.1	And I know in your last hour you were talking all about the Supreme Court,
0:13.7	and we're going to pick it up right here at 10 o'clock.
0:17.1	I'm sure you will, my friend.
0:18.4	Have a good hour.
0:19.0	All right, thanks, Aiman.
0:21.4	And on the last day of Pride, 2023, the Republican Appointing Justices
0:26.0	on the Supreme Court enshrined discrimination against LGBTQ people.
0:31.5	In a case deliberately brought to advance conservative interests in a favorable court.
0:36.2	And of course, it was about a wedding website.
0:40.2	It was decided that an evangelical website designer in Colorado would not have to build a
0:45.6	website for a same-sex couple because it would violate her First Amendment right by forcing her
0:51.9	to say something she didn't believe.
0:54.3	But here's the thing.
0:56.4	No gay couple actually asked for this evangelical website designer's work.
1:02.0	The conservative legal interest groups created out of whole cloth this fever dream that an evangelical
1:08.3	wedding website designer would have her rights hypothetically challenged if a hypothetical
1:14.8	same-sex couple hypothetically asked for her to design the website for their wedding because she
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