Carrie Johnson

The U.S.

Postal Service said right around Christmastime that it may not postmark a piece of mail the same day that it receives it.

And that change could really affect how people vote by mail and whether their ballots are counted.

Yeah, let's start with the sports cases.

They involve challenges to the constitutionality of laws in Idaho and West Virginia.

In Idaho, a transgender woman wants to compete in track at Boise State University.

The Ninth Circuit Appeals Court ruled that Idaho's law that would ban that has violated the Constitution and the guarantee of equal protection.

The other case was filed by a trans student who wanted to compete in girls teams at her middle school in West Virginia.

There, the lower court also invalidated West Virginia's ban and basically said it violates a different law, Title IX, that prohibits sex discrimination in education.

The Trump administration here is siding with the states who had enacted these bans.

Yeah, that case involves a therapist, a Christian therapist in Colorado.

Colorado had banned conversion therapy for young people.

And this Christian therapist wanted to talk about it with some of her patients.

She says the state ban violates her free speech rights.

She says it's a gag order.

But the state says it's not about her speech.

It's about conduct.

And it also says that conversion therapy has been found to be unsafe.

and ineffective and could help exacerbate a mental health crisis among teens.

The 10th Circuit Appeals Court, the lower court, said the ban regulates conduct and not speech.