A Consequential Supreme Court Term Begins With a Conversion Therapy Case
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Warning: this episode contains mentions of suicide.
In one of the first cases of the Supreme Court’s new term, the justices considered whether to strike down a ban on conversion therapy, the contentious practice that aims to change a young person’s sexual orientation.
Ann E. Marimow, Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times, talks us through the case.
Guest: Ann E. Marimow, who covers the Supreme Court for The New York Times from Washington.
Background reading:
- Read the main points of the conversion therapy argument at the Supreme Court.
- The case considering the Colorado law will have implications for more than 20 states with similar bans.
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