Jim Campbell
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So the Supreme Court recognized that.
They also rejected Colorado's argument that
that this was just some kind of conduct that Kaylee Childs is engaged in.
There is no conduct.
Kaylee only engages in conversations with young people struggling with these issues.
And the court recognized that you can't relabel speech conduct just to avoid the requirements of the First Amendment.
Yeah, it's an eight to one decision because the Supreme Court is so strong on issues of free speech.
Almost all of the court recognized that this law is so problematic under well-established First Amendment principles.
Only Justice Jackson dissented, and her dissent simply gets the First Amendment wrong.
She ignores the fact that this law discriminates based on viewpoints,
and picks winners and losers in the public square.
The Supreme Court's decision makes very clear that those laws face a very significant burden if they're ever going to be applied to simple conversations between counselors and clients.
And so we're very optimistic that this is the end of those laws to the extent governments try to apply them to shut down voluntary conversations between counselors and their clients.
Well, I would start with the language of the 14th Amendment because the 14th Amendment speaks directly to the issue of citizenship.
And it says that all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States.
Now, that was originally approved by the people in order to grant citizenship to freed slaves.
But over time, some have come to understand that as allowing people
birthright citizenship to children born to illegal immigrants.
But President Trump on his first day back in office, he signed an order saying that babies born in the U.S.
will no longer automatically get citizenship if their parents are here illegally or only temporarily.