from the colorado baker had acted with impermissible hostility ruling against the couple and against the gay couple who had been refused service. the court is saying it needs to go back to lower courts, which did not have the benefit of the ruling when they made these decisions and have them go back and reconsider these in light of the ruling. if it s a victory, it s a very narrow one. yeah. do you see it as a punt? definitely. this is the court. this is one of the hot button issues. the court has a number of hot button issues before it this term. and the legitimacy has been hobbled by the nomination of brett kavanaugh and the debacle of confirmation hearings. and a chief justice who more than anything understands himself to be a steward of the institutional legacy. they don t want to be understood as delving into partisan politics. they want to be seen as above the fray and being able to take
instructions to reconsider in light of its decision two years ago in the case involving almost the same set of facts as a colorado baker. but that case doesn t give much guidance because basically all it says is the colorado baker got a raw deal from the state commission. those facts weren t present in the oregon case. so i don t know what the oregon courts are going to make of that. odds are if the state goes at this again, the bakers will lose again. so i don t know what the supreme court gains today. more decisions probably to come later this week. i think we have four today. so there s 20 left before the end of next week. okay. and i know you ll be there reporting on all of it. pete williams, going through the weed whacking. appreciate it, from the supreme court. reporter: thank you. cnn is reporting that gloria vanderbilt has died. she first became a household name in the 1930s, which she was the center of a heated custody
chick-fil-a is a profitable business, they can handle their own legal affairs but these companies, groups and individuals may not have the same benefit. we want to say we will protect your religious liberty, one of those bedrock principles our state was founded on and it is important to continue to strengthen and make sure texans constitutional rights are not infringed upon. rob: one of your colleagues, this is why she opposes the bill, i m sure the intent of this bill is to protect individual freedoms in reality would provide a segue for individuals to circumvent the rules of law in the name of religion, they could legally refuse service to families like mine based on the owners religious belief and then you get cases like the colorado baker which is the other side of this. how do you respond to your
we are starting red tide in trying to understand what causes it. we know it s natural. it s been around for thousands of years but what can we do about it? that s the big question. scientists can t say when the red tide will go away. now in its tenth month, this is the longest bloom southwest florida has seen in more than a decade. bret: thank you. he won his case before the u.s. supreme court but the colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple is now suing colorado over another discriminate in allegation. lawyers for a masterpiece cake shop owner jack phillips status date is on a crusade to question because of his religious beliefs. the supreme court sided with phillips in june, saying comments by member of the colorado civil rights commission displayed an antireligious bias. i did not rule on whether the business owners can invoke religious objections to refuse service to lgbt people. less than a month later, the commission found probable cause
practice the religion we want out being persecuted for it. okay. and that doesn t matter what religion you are. i ve got to get other people in here. sessions said that this task force would promote cases like the colorado baker who refused to a same sex couple a wedding cake, challenged the state s anti-discrimination law, before the supreme court. i just keep wondering, who is the actual i can t figure this out, because, and to say that it doesn t have anything to do with discriminating against gay people, officials from the legal advocacy group that represented the colorado baker attended sessions event, and the alliance defending freedom is a group that has supported the recriminalization of homosexuality in the u.s., linked homosexually to pedophilia and claims that a homosexual agenda will destroy christianity and society.