While it will now be more likely that the justices will divide evenly on difficult cases, Justice Kennedy will remain the swing vote, providing a fifth vote for a majority of
progressive justices (Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan), and remaining
with the conservatives (Thomas, Roberts and Alito) in tie votes, which will leave the lower court's judgment in place and will not operate as binding
precedent on lower courts.
Participants will learn about the historic
precedents for making comedy out of hardship both within the LGBT community and in the greater
progressive activism movements, practice simple techniques for increasing their ability to use of laughter as a coping mechanism, and finally respond to writing prompts to help them embolden any art form
with humor.