The Supreme Court’s conservative majority has ruled a Christian graphic artist who wants to design wedding websites can refuse to work with same-sex couples. The decision is a defeat for gay rights.
Provide free abortions and hormones w/ informed consent on federal land. Marriage should be a federal institution and not a state one but I'm not sure what that would require. Do what Republicans do and fund people to shop around districts for judges that agree with them in order to set good precedent. Dig up dirt on your political enemies and use any of the gazillion laws we have to arrest them. The President could also simply do what Russia does and throw some enemies out of windows, but you'd only want to do that sparingly. For any bad judgment that pertains just to executive stuff, simply ignore that.
Edit: As for affirmative action, universities could just do what they did with the ADA - pretend to be working on it for decades with little progress and simply eat the cost of lawsuits
some of the language i have seen coming out of the schools is that they can follow the law by not attributing any weight to an applicant's race, but they are legally allowed to attribute weight to an entrance essay where an applicant discusses their experience of race. so good faith institutions can signal to applicants to mention their experiences as a minority in their application and the university can use that communicated experience and prefer their application over Brace "Moneyshot" Worthington-Fauntleroy III's application to major in Phys Ed. and minor in Pharmaceutically Enhanced Mixology even though they have the same GPA.
but of course, schools are mostly interested in donors and new construction. so if brace's dad owns a car dealership...
Provide free abortions and hormones w/ informed consent on federal land. Marriage should be a federal institution and not a state one but I'm not sure what that would require. Do what Republicans do and fund people to shop around districts for judges that agree with them in order to set good precedent. Dig up dirt on your political enemies and use any of the gazillion laws we have to arrest them. The President could also simply do what Russia does and throw some enemies out of windows, but you'd only want to do that sparingly. For any bad judgment that pertains just to executive stuff, simply ignore that.
Edit: As for affirmative action, universities could just do what they did with the ADA - pretend to be working on it for decades with little progress and simply eat the cost of lawsuits
some of the language i have seen coming out of the schools is that they can follow the law by not attributing any weight to an applicant's race, but they are legally allowed to attribute weight to an entrance essay where an applicant discusses their experience of race. so good faith institutions can signal to applicants to mention their experiences as a minority in their application and the university can use that communicated experience and prefer their application over Brace "Moneyshot" Worthington-Fauntleroy III's application to major in Phys Ed. and minor in Pharmaceutically Enhanced Mixology even though they have the same GPA.
but of course, schools are mostly interested in donors and new construction. so if brace's dad owns a car dealership...