Versus Trump: Trump Versus Anti-Discrimination Laws (with guest Joshua Matz)
On this week’s episode of Versus Trump, Charlie, Jason, and Easha are joined by Take Care publisher Joshua Matz to talk about the Masterpiece Cake Shop oral argument, plus the status of Muslim Ban litigation and the future of Take Care.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard argument in the Masterpiece Cake Shop case, which presents the question of whether a baker in Colorado may refuse to create a wedding cake for a same-sex wedding even though Colorado prohibits retailers from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation. Joshua Matz, who filed an amicus brief in the case in support of the same-sex couple, joins the podcast to help break down the argument. They talk first about the involvement of the Trump Administration and whether its legal position withstood questioning at the argument. They then analyze both the free speech and free exercise issues in the case, and they make some perhaps unexpected predictions about what the decision might be and how far its legal rule might reach.
Next, just minutes after the Ninth Circuit heard oral argument in a case about Muslim Ban 3.0, Joshua and Easha offer some quick takes on what happened there and what the Supreme Court's recent denial of a stay portends. Finally, Joshua discusses the past and future of Take Care.
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