LGBTQ+ Rights Are on the Docket as Supreme Court Starts New Term
The U.S. Supreme Court began its new term Monday, which is shaping to be historical. Notably, associate justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will have heard her first arguments as the court's first Black woman.
But this term comes as the court has its lowest approval rating ever, with Gallup reporting a historically low approval rate of 40 percent in the wake of last term's Dobbs decision which overturned Roe vs.
Wade and took with it decades of precedent with the stripping of reproductive rights from Americans. This term will bring major controversies over affirmative action, voting, religion, free speech, and gay rights.
The court will decide whether LGBTQ+ people are protected from discrimination in business or whether a business owner can refuse to serve a group of people based on religious beliefs.
