Day: December 5, 2024

The lawyer defending Tennessee’s anti-trans law, and conservatives on the Supreme Court engaged in a “blizzard of wordplay” to pretend that the law pertaining to gender-affirming care is not sex-based discrimination, an extension of the reasoning Supreme Court conservatives used in deciding the Dobbs case about abortion. Mark Joseph Stern, senior writer for Slate Magazine, and Leah Litman, University of Michigan law professor and co-host of the Strict Scrutiny podcast talk with Alex Wagner about how Donald Trump’s Supreme Court is eroding anti-discrimination protections.

The CEO of US-based UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson, was gunned down outside a New York hotel on Wednesday.

Investigators are searching for clues that could help them identify the masked gunman who stalked and killed the leader of one of the largest U.S. health insurance companies on a Manhattan sidewalk, then disappeared into Central Park. UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, 50, died in a dawn ambush Wednesday as he walked to the company’s annual investor conference at a Hilton in Midtown, blocks from tourist draws like Radio City Music Hall and the Museum of Modern Art. The killing, and the shooter’s movements in the minutes before and afterward, were captured on some of the multitudes of security cameras present in that part of the city.

The U.S. Supreme Court took up a case Wednesday, challenging Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors. While the Justices heard arguments inside, several Tennesseans rallied outsid…