Becky G on Supreme Court's DACA Ruling: 'A Glimpse of Light to Remember Why We're Fighting'

In a decision that undermines LGBTQ teachers at religious schools, the U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed for Catholic schools an expansive ministerial exemption in hiring practices under civil rights law.

Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania ruling means that 70,000-126,000 women could now lose their contraception coverage.“Today’s ruling is egregious—people rely on birth control for their health, for their livelihoods, and for their ability to determine their own futures," Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO, Planned Parenthood Action Fund said in a statement.

The gay man whose case was pivotal in the U.S. Supreme Court ruling banning discrimination against LGBTQ people in the workplace says he is “elated” by the result.

Roe vs. Wade decision that enshrined the right to abortion as constitutional in the U.S.Louisiana's abortion law was significant for two reasons.The first is that it would have required doctors to have a credential called an “admitting privilege” at a nearby hospital.

Ted Johnson The Supreme Court on Monday struck down a Louisiana law that placed restrictions on abortion clinics.Chief Justice John Roberts concurred with the court’s four liberal justices in forming a majority in the closely watched case.The Louisiana law placed requirements on doctors who performed abortions, requiring them to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.Read the opinion here.More to come.Subscribe to Deadline Breaking News Alerts and keep your inbox happy.Signup for

Nicole Maines, 22, is known by many fans as ‘Dreamer’, on The CW’s Supergirl. But the 22-year-old 2020 GLAAD Award nominee is also an avid transgender rights activist who has achieved much more than the coveted title of TV’s first transgender superhero.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court said it will accept Bill Cosby’s appeal of his 2018 conviction, creating a possibility of his sex offender conviction getting overturned.Bill Cosby will get a chance to fight his sexual assault conviction in court as he’s spent the last two years in prison where he’s maintained his innocence.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to hear out Bill Cosby’s appeal over his 2018 sexual assault conviction.In an order issued on Tuesday, the court said it would consider whether the judge should not have allowed the five “prior bad acts” witnesses to testify at Cosby’s trial.“We’re extremely thankful to the State Supreme Court of Pennsylvania for agreeing to review Mr. Cosby’s appeal,” representatives for Cosby said in a statement.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticAfter almost two years in a state prison for the 2004 rape of Andrea Constand, Bill Cosby will now get to argue part of his case before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in a just granted appeal.Having failed on almost a dozen occasions before to have the matter reopened or relitigated, this limited review does present the officially designated sexually violent predator once known as America’s Dad with the best opportunity to be free since he was

Disgraced comedian Bill Cosby has won the right to fight his 2018 sexual assault conviction before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The 82-year-old actor has been imprisoned in suburban Philadelphia for nearly two years after a jury convicted him of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman at his home in 2004.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterThe Pennsylvania Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear an appeal of Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction.In a brief order, the court said it would consider Cosby’s argument that the trial judge should not have allowed five women to testify about their own allegations against the comedian.The court will also determine whether the Montgomery County District Attorney’s office violated an agreement not to prosecute Cosby, and whether the judge should have allowed

The  South Carolina Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Wednesday (June 17) that James Brown’s last partner, Tommie Rae Hynie, was not his legal wife and therefore has no claim to over 1,200 compositions in the King of Soul’s catalogue.

As you might be aware, the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the LGBTQ community being protected from workplace discrimination based on their sexual orientation or gender identity.

It’s rare you can define an era by just one interaction, much less by just a couple tweets. But in this case the difference between what the US had in Barack Obama and what we got in Donald Trump is SO STARK you can’t NOT see it.

The New York Times.“We do not decide whether DACA or its rescission are sound policies,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion.

A number of celebrities took to social media on Thursday to applaud the Supreme Court’s decision to reject President Donald Trump’s administrative decision to end DACA [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals], the program that gives legal protection to undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children.

President Donald Trump's administrative decision to end DACA [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals], the program that gives legal protection to undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children.The DACA program was created in 2012 by former President Barack Obama's administration.

The Supreme Court ruled on June 18 that the Trump administration will not be allowed to pursue its plan to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program created under the Obama administration, which protects children of undocumented immigrants.

Laverne Cox, like many, was “utterly shocked” when she found out that the Supreme Court ruled in favor of protecting LGBTQ workers‘ rights. “I was shocked, to be perfectly honest,” she admitted on the June 18 episode of The View.

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program cannot be ended. This ruling allows for nearly 800,000 participating young people, also known as Dreamers, to remain in the US without the fear of deportation (per the following of DACA rules).