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6. This is an excerpt from the Kagan & Sotomayor concurring opinion. Justice Kagan authored it & Justice Sotomayor joined.

Reply to Jose Garcia (Reply #4)

Tue Mar 31, 2026, 11:23 AM

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"The Court today decides that the Colorado law challenged here, as applied to talk therapy, conflicts with core First
Amendment principles because it regulates speech based on viewpoint. See ante, at 23. I agree. I write only to note
that if Colorado had instead enacted a content-based but viewpoint-neutral law, it would raise a different and more
difficult question."

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-539_fd9g.pdf

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