Supreme Court Rejects Texas Lawsuit Against California for Implementing Travel Ban Over LGBT Discrimination
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Texas’ case against California’s ban on state-funded businesses trips to Texas and several others states due to LGBT discrimination laws on Monday.
In 2019, California instituted taxpayer-funded travel bans to Texas and 10 other states due to those states breaking AB 1887, a law passed in 2015 that has the state “avoid supporting or financing discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.” Texas was added primarily because of a 2017 law passed in Austin that allows foster care and adoption agencies to deny services for religious beliefs.
Texas immediately said that the California law was akin to “economic warfare” and was an effort to “punish Texans for respecting the right of conscience for foster care and adoption providers.”
