As John notes in the adjacent post, the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 today in Chiles v. Salazar that Colorado’s law banning “conversion therapy” was unconstitutional under the First Amendment. Only Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.
Justice Jackson opined that the Court’s decision “opens a dangerous can of worms.” In addition to thinking unclearly, Justice Jackson apparently can’t write well either. She inclines to cliché and redundancy. Or she thinks in clichés repeatedly. Have you ever heard of a safe can of worms? Good grief. That is pathetic. Maybe opening Pandora’s box would have afforded the optimal cliché and redundancy — you know, an unpredictable Pandora’s box of evils.
Minnesota has a law banning “conversion therapy” like Colorado’s. Governor Tim Walz celebrated its passage with Democratic legislators in April 2023 in the “let’s go crazy” session of the legislature. Before the passage of the law Walz promulgated an executive order to the same effect. Whatever happened to No Kings?
By the way, I wrote about Minnesota’s law and Walz’s executive order in the Washington Free Beacon column “The Minnesota Shooter Had Second Thoughts About Transgenderism. Under Tim Walz, Gender Affirming Care is the Only Legal Treatment for Minors.” I didn’t even mention that the Minneosta law and Walz order were blatantly unconstitutional. I only made the point that they were profoundly misguided.
