Colorado ironically strengthened First Amendment rights for creative professionals by targeting a Christian baker and may do it again with so-called conversion therapy ban before the high court.
Attorney General Liz Murril's argument relies on the Ten Commandments being historically and educationally significant.
The Oklahoma AG said the approval of a Catholic charter school, the first approved religious charter school in the U.S. that would receive taxpayer funding, violates the U.S. Constitution.
The St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Drummond case involves a 2023 decision by the Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board to allow St. Isidore to join the dozens of charter schools in the state.
"The new language of the University’s nondiscrimination policy offers caste-oppressed students who may be hiding their caste identity an option to report and address the harm they experience."
Courses entitled “Critical Race Theory,” “Spoken Word Latinx Poetics and Poetry,” and “Indigenous Representations in the United States” are all available through CU Boulder’s Department of Ethnic Studies.
The bill will also define antisemitism for state agencies.
But the high court, without commenting, declined to consider a petition from the plaintiffs who had filed a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court asking justices to take up the legal challenge.