Today, the Supreme
Court ruled in Masterpiece Cake Shop v. Colorado
Civil Rights Commission, a case dealing with discrimination against LGBT
customers, religious freedom issues and free speech rights. In a 7-2 ruling,
the court sided with the baker who refused to make a cake for a gay couple’s
wedding, but did not address the core free speech arguments. Professor of Law
at the University of Pennsylvania TobiasB. Wolff joins me on the show today to talk all about the meaning and
impact of the decision.
Since we last spoke
with John Nichols of The Nation a lot has happened—Trump
asserted the right to pardon himself, the Supreme Court ruled in the Masterpiece Cake Shop v. Colorado Civil
Rights Commission case, and the TV show Roseanne
was cancelled after Roseanne Barr’s controversial racist tweet. John returns to
the show today to talk all about these issues and whole lot more, John is The Nation’s national-affairs
correspondent, a contributing writer for The
Progressive and In These Times
and the associate editor of The Capital
Times, the daily newspaper in Madison, Wisconsin.
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