SCOTUS rules that LGBTQ can sue for workplace bias

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Title VII protections now includes LGBTQ in a single watershed decision. Happy Pride month.

.@business: The ruling came in one of two LGBT workplace-bias cases the court has been considering. The justices could rule momentarily in the second case, which concerns discrimination against transgender workers. https://t.co/9xv8jXJF2N— Andrew Peng (@TheAPJournalist) June 15, 2020

BREAKING: Supreme Court rules gay and lesbian people can sue for workplace bias under landmark civil rights law. https://t.co/BOLr5x6Pa8

— The Associated Press (@AP) June 15, 2020

A reminder that the word “sex” was inserted into Title VII by a segregationist Democrat to try and kill the Civil Rights Act. One of the great self-owns of American legislative history. https://t.co/aK1mPl36P0 pic.twitter.com/FAlb6Xxdc5

— Adam SerwerÃ°ÂŸÂÂ (@AdamSerwer) June 15, 2020

A dark money group staffed and funded by longtime anti-LGBT operatives spent millions of dollars blocking Merrick Garland's nomination and millions more pushing Neil Gorsuch's. This surely isn't the return on investment they expected. https://t.co/rJ0KsmJgVZ

— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) June 15, 2020

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THE SUPREME COURT JUST RULED THAT TITLE VII PROHIBITS ANTI-LGBTQ DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT.

But the website crashed. I'll have a link shortly. pic.twitter.com/hd2BeTPdWS

— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) June 15, 2020

The majority opinion ruling that federal law prohibits employment discrimination against LGBTQ people was written by Justice Neil Gorsuch.

This is the link, but I can only load the first page because the SCOTUS website crashed. If you have a copy please email it to me at mark.stern@slate.com and I'll upload it elsewhere. supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf…

The decision is 6–3. Gorsuch wrote the majority, joined by Roberts, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan. Alito wrote the dissent, joined by Thomas and Kavanaugh. (LOL textualism.)

Donald Trump promised conservative evangelical voters a Supreme Court justice who would give them everything they've always wanted, including a rollback of LGBTQ rights. Not sure how his “I gave you SCOTUS!” line will work on the campaign trail now.

I'm loving the chaos energy of this moment, frankly. SCOTUS, the great guardian of our democracy, the council of sages, the head of our judicial branch, the ultimate arbiters of American law, cannot load an opinion onto a website.

The timing of this decision could not be worse for the Trump administration. It just rolled out two new policies rejecting protections for transgender people under laws that bar discrimination because of sex.
SCOTUS basically just said the administration's theory is dead wrong.

Gorsuch's majority opinion is 29 pages.
Alito and Kavanaugh's dissents are a collective 138 pages.

Here is a copy of the Supreme Court's decision outlawing employment discrimination against LGBTQ people.

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Here's Alito accusing Gorsuch of betraying Scalia. Alito is MAD.

Today's Supreme Court decision is, by a mile, the biggest legal victory transgender Americans have won in the history of the nation.

Today's SCOTUS decision is also an extraordinary victory for gay and bisexual Americans on the heels of Obergefell, which guaranteed a right to same-sex marriage just five years ago. What an incredible expansion of legal equality in an extremely short amount of time.