Showdown Coming: Which Will Prevail - Religious Liberty or LGBT Rights?

Discrimination: Supreme Court decision protecting LGBT rights in the workplace sets up the next battle which will be over exemptions in civil rights laws for religious employers
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-lgbt-religion-analysis/next-lgbtq-rights-legal-battle-looms-after-supreme-court-victory-idUSKBN23M36O

• It will be interesting to see what the Trump administration does with its new transgender healthcare rule, announced the day before the Supreme Court’s decision.  The administration  could take the position the decision doesn’t apply because the facts at issue are different (healthcare versus employment) or throw in the towel because of the way the prevailing political winds are blowing.  Background: New York Post  LifeNews
  
  

4A: Louisville bans no-knock warrants in law named for Breonna Taylor who was killed during a no-knock raid
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/11/875466130/no-knock-warrants-banned-in-louisville-in-law-named-for-breonna-taylor

• Rand Paul of Kentucky introduces bill to prohibit federal law enforcement and local police that receive federal funding from using no-knock warrants
  https://www.axios.com/breonna-taylor-rand-paul-a5aef94d-5889-498d-a4a1-39a174777076.html
  
  

Supreme Court turns away qualified immunity case, will not reexamine court-created doctrine that shields police officers from liability (much criticized in the wake of the George Floyd death in police custody)
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/15/politics/supreme-court-qualified-immunity/index.html

1A Religion: D.C. Mayor gets sued for Black Lives Matter street painting; suit alleges she is promoting an orthodoxy in violation of 1A Establishment Clause
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jun/11/mayor-bowser-washington-dc-mayor-sued-over-black-l/

1A: Charleston cannot require tour guides to get a license or jump through educational hoops; city can’t prove any of that protects the public (4th Circuit)
https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/191044.P.pdf

Leftist writer bemoans the fact that Hugh Hewitt stands up for the “undemocratic” Electoral College and two-senators-per-state provision of the Constitution.  There’s only one problem: we don’t live in a democracy with its tyranny of the majority, and that’s by design. #ARepublicIfYouCanKeepIt
https://www.minnpost.com/eric-black-ink/2020/06/hugh-hewitt-stands-up-for-two-of-the-most-undemocratic-provisions-in-the-constitution/