No First Amendment Exception for Professional-Client Speech: States Can't Ban "Conversion Therapy" Speech for Minors

From Justice Gorsuch's opinion for a nearly unanimous Court today in Chiles v. Salazar (only Justice Jackson dissented): In 2019, Colorado ...

Conversion Therapy Ruling Radically Upends Professional Standards

Opinion: The US Supreme Court’s ruling on Colorado's conversion therapy ban dramatically shrinks the authority of professions ...
Law

Involuntary Talk Therapy and LGBTQ+ Youth: How a Speech Ruling Can Widen the Path From Counseling to Confinement

Whatever the court decides will ripple far beyond Colorado, determining whether states can continue to treat conversion therapy as professional misconduct, or whether counseling aimed at changing a ...

Justice Jackson's Dissent, on Why Viewpoint-Based Restrictions on Professional-Client Speech May Be Permissible

A short excerpt from Justice Jackson's long solo dissent today in Chiles v. Salazar, where she argued that the ...
National Review

Colorado Is Still as Confused on Free Speech as It Is on Gender

In Counseling Case, the Supreme Court Sides with the First Amendment Birthright Citizenship: The Constitutional Stakes and the Transient Problem The Supreme Court Rejects Ideological Orthodoxy ...