Avi,
You just don’t get it. Selling some one a cake doesn’t make a baker a participant in a marriage ceremony.
I was in the kosher bakery business in the 1970s. We were out of town. We had many non-Jewish customers and at least 10 times as many non-kosher keeping Jewish customers than those who observed hilchos kashrus.
Once a cake was paid for and left our premises, we had nothing to do with what food it was served with or where it was served. Selling a cake didn’t make us participants in the events. Even writing a sentiment on the cake didn’t make us participants. In fact our involvement ceased the moment the cake was paid for and title passed.
You have no clue what compelled speech means. The government has to compel the speech. Here the same sex couple wants to buy a cake, they can’t compel a baker to inscribe anything. They can merely choose to buy elsewhere if the baker does not wish to write a particular sentiment. What the baker cannot do in some states is say I won’t do this because you are gay. The baker can say I choose not to have your business because it is in conflict with my religious principles.
Remember the Freedoms in the Bill of Rights and guarantees such as Freedom of Speech refer to Government action, not that of individuals.
As for the Senate’s responsibility to consider a Supreme Court nomination, it is not a law, it is in Article 2 Section 2 of the US Constitution. “He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court,…”
The President has the power to appoint Supreme Court Judges with the advise and Consent of the Senate. If POTUS makes an appointment this lays out the Senate’s obligation to render advice and requires consent for confirmation. You don’t need laws for what is already in the Constitution.