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Chapter 116: Bathroom In Detail
“It is pretty cool. I’ll let brother Hui Shi finish introducing the features of the room now.” Annette couldn’t help but say shyly, before letting go of Lain’s hand, and waiting quietly by Lain’s side, as he looked at the holographic room in front of him in wonder.
“Thanks sister Annette, I’ll continue now by letting you know that directly in front of us is the entrance to both the bathroom of this room, and the closet.” Hui Shi stated, as he looked left and right, while standing in front of the closet.
“Directly in front of us is a wall with hooks, and shelves that can be used to store clothes and towels, so it can be seen as a small closet of sorts. On its left is a doorway that leads to the bathroom of the room, and on its right is a doorway that leads to the formal closet of the room.” He added, with a smile, before walking towards the bathroom’s doorway on the left.
“Both the bathroom and the closet have space expansion runes that make the space within them larger than they should be.” Annette stated with a smile.
“Is that so?” Lain couldn’t help but ask, as he looked away from the screen in front of him towards the walk-in closet, which now appears to be an entryway that leads to the bathroom and the real walk-in closet, before following Hui Shi into it.
“Yup. The bathroom is a normal bathroom, with a toilet bowl, as well as a shower section that allows you to clean yourself.” Hui Shi replied. Before moving to the side to allow Lain and Annette to enter the room.
Entering the bathroom, Lain couldn’t help but notice how large it was. It was almost the size of the bedroom that they just exited. On the left side of this bathroom, situated directly on the opposite wall facing Lain, was a bowl that Lain assumed must be the toilet bowl. On the right side of the bathroom, was a large bathtub that reached from the opposite wall, towards the entrance wall that Lain, Hui Shi and Annette were standing by.
On the entrance wall, directly above where the bathtub is, there seemed to be a holographic screen levitating by it.
After seeing this new holographic screen, Lain couldn’t help but walk over to it. Seeing Lain walk towards the screen, Annette quickly opened her mouth to speak, as she followed him from behind. “That holographic television is a bathroom menu. Every house has it.”
Hui Shi, while looking around the clean, and white colored bathroom that was covered in faint, light-blue runes, said slowly, “It allows you to change the settings of the bathtub and the shower. Its controls are pretty simple, and very easy to learn.”
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3 Key Supreme Court Cases To Watch In Early 2026
3 Key Supreme Court Cases To Watch In Early 2026
The Supreme Court will resume oral arguments the week of Jan. 12, taking on https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_calendars/MonthlyArgumentCalJanuary2026.pdf
dealing with girls’ athletics, gun laws, and the president’s attempt to fire a member of the Federal Reserve.
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Here are the top cases to watch.
1. Girls’ Sports
The Supreme Court on Jan. 13 will hear arguments in two cases—West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v. Hecox—that focus on West Virginia’s and Idaho’s laws barring males from competing in female sports. The eventual ruling is expected to tackle key questions about how federal law and the Constitution treat sex and gender.
Both states faced hurdles in federal appeals courts, which held that their laws classified individuals based on their sex and “transgender status.” They also indicated that those types of classifications violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, which generally directs states to apply the law equally to everyone regardless of particular characteristics.
While courts have sometimes allowed states to treat certain groups of people differently, legal classifications based on sex and other characteristics have also been rejected. That’s because when courts determine whether to uphold a state law, they weigh certain factors, such as whether the state has an important enough interest in using certain characteristics to classify individuals.
In both West Virginia’s and Idaho’s https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24-38/374543/20250912154628466_Hecox%20Merits%20Opening%20Brief.pdf
, the states have acknowledged that they classify people based on sex but that doing so is justified—specifically because they further important government interests in protecting equality in sports.
“On average, men are faster, stronger, bigger, more muscular, and have more explosive power than women,” Idaho told the Supreme Court. “For female athletes to compete safely and excel, they deserve sex-specific teams.”
West Virginia’s https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24-43/374548/20250912160050839_West%20Virginia%20v%20BPJ%20Opening%20Brief.pdf
against West Virginia in 2024.
That decision was wrong, West Virginia told the Supreme Court, because Title IX was focused on unequal treatment between the sexes rather than eliminating all sex-based distinctions.
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U.S. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) speaks following the passage of the “The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act,” outside the U.S. Capitol on April 20, 2023. The Supreme Court on Jan. 13 will hear arguments in two cases that focus on West Virginia’s and Idaho’s laws barring males from competing in female sports. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images
Heather Jackson, whose male child was barred from participating in girls’ cross country and track teams, argued that West Virginia’s law was unreasonable. Part of Jackson’s argument is that puberty-delaying drugs have prevented her child from developing physiological, athletic advantages over girls.
Meanwhile, the student challenging Idaho’s law has attempted to withdraw from the dispute while pledging not to participate in women’s sports. The Supreme Court has deferred deciding on this attempt until after oral argument.
Beyond sex-based distinctions, the appeals courts raised a separate question about whether Idaho’s and West Virginia’s laws classify individuals based on “transgender status.” In other words, do the states target individuals based on that purported status rather than solely based on their sex?
So far, the Supreme Court hasn’t offered a definitive ruling on this issue, but multiple justices https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/23-477_2cp3.pdf
in June that someone’s “transgender status” shouldn’t receive extra protection under the Constitution. Justices Samuel Alito and Amy Coney Barrett both said, among other things, that “transgender status” lacked the type of immutable characteristic held by other protected classes, such as race.
2. Hawaii’s Gun Law
The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Jan. 20 in Wolford v. Lopez, which challenges Hawaii’s restrictions on concealed carry but also invites the court to clarify the role of American history in upholding gun laws.
In a landmark https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/20-843_7j80.pdf
in 2022, Justice Clarence Thomas said that state laws should be consistent with the nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.
Since then, lower courts have tried applying the decision in that case, known as New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, to state laws such as Hawaii’s. The Hawaii law https://law.justia.com/codes/hawaii/title-10/chapter-134/section-134-9/
concealed-carry permit holders from carrying weapons in privately owned public spaces unless given “express authorization of the owner, lessee, operator, or manager of the private property.”
When the Ninth Circuit https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2024/09/06/23-16164.pdf
the law, it said those restrictions fell “well within the historical tradition.” The appeals court pointed to a New Jersey law from 1771 and a Louisiana law from 1865 that it said were “dead ringers” for Hawaii’s restrictions.
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A man carries a gun before a hearing where four gun control bills passed the Senate Judiciary Committee at the Virginia state Capitol in Richmond, Va., on Jan. 13, 2020. The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Jan. 20 in a case challenging Hawaii’s concealed-carry restrictions that also asks the justices to clarify how history should factor into gun laws. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times
Those two were relevant because one was enacted just before the Second Amendment’s ratification, while the other came just before ratification of the 14th Amendment, which extends the Second Amendment to states.
Jason Wolford, a Hawaii resident who sued with other plaintiffs, is https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24-1046/384821/20251117164215781_24-1046%20Merits%20Brief%20of%20Petitioners%20with%20Statutory%20Appendix.pdf
the Supreme Court to reverse the Ninth Circuit’s decision on the basis that it erred in analyzing the older laws. More specifically, his attorneys argued that historic laws couldn’t merely be similar to the one passed by Hawaii.
Instead, the Supreme Court’s decision in Bruen required that the laws needed to serve similar purposes, the petition says.
Louisiana’s law was too different from Hawaii’s, Wolford said, because it not only focused on land that was barred to the public but also came as part of the state’s “black codes” intended to deprive former slaves of civil rights. He also argued that the New Jersey law was intended to control poaching on enclosed lands and was therefore different from Hawaii’s law.
Hawaii, meanwhile, https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24-1046/387778/20251217162555763_25.12.17%20Wolford%20response_final.pdf
its law as following numerous founding-era and Reconstruction-era laws in vindicating the rights of property owners to exclude certain people from their property.
3. Trump’s Fed Firing
On Jan. 21, the Supreme Court will examine the president’s authority to remove members of the Federal Reserve. The https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/25a312.html
, Trump v. Cook, follows another case heard in December over the president’s ability to fire a member of the Federal Trade Commission.
Both cases focus on laws Congress passed restricting the president’s ability to fire officials. Trump v. Cook is a bit different, however, in that it focuses more on the purported cause Trump cited in firing Federal Reserve Board of Governors member Lisa Cook.
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Lisa Cook, member of the Board of Governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve, departs the Federal Reserve Board headquarters in Washington on Oct. 9, 2025. On Jan. 21, the Supreme Court will examine the president’s authority to remove members of the Federal Reserve. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images
The issue arose after Trump sent a https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115092130707196133
in August accusing Cook of mortgage fraud.
Cook and Trump have differed over whether alleged fraud was the type of “cause” that Congress allowed the president to use as a basis for firing board members. While the Federal Reserve Act allows presidents to fire members “for cause,” it doesn’t offer much indication as to what that means. Trump, meanwhile, has argued that courts shouldn’t be able to second-guess his determination that a sufficient cause existed for firing someone such as Cook.
Many of the arguments surround how much protection Cook deserves under the Fifth Amendment, which says people can’t “be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”
A federal judge in Washington reinstated Cook on the basis that she had a property interest in her position but wasn’t given due process before losing her job. That due process, the judge said, should include some kind of meaningful notice and an opportunity to be heard.
Trump appealed to the Supreme Court, telling the justices that tenure-protected officers didn’t have a property right to their positions and that reinstatement was outside of judges’ authority.
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But that adjustment doesn’t change the symbolic structure of the year: March still marked the beginning of the civic, military, and agricultural cycle.
Intercalary days fixed the math. March defined the meaning.
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