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.)
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Here's my piece. This is a huge victory for LGBTQ equality, a triumph for the Supreme Court's independence, and just a terrific day for the country. In the end, Gorsuch stuck to his principles, and the most straightforward understanding of the law won out.https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/06/supreme-court-lgbtq-discrimination-employment.html …
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Don't underestimate the anger today's SCOTUS decision will provoke on the right. It could boil over into a crisis. Conservative donors spent millions getting Gorsuch on the bench. They wanted results. Now they're going to ask Republicans: THIS is the return on our investment?
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I am a fan of Gorsuch's explanation here. Broad laws have broad applications. As
@GillianAtLaw has documented, the history of Title VII is a history of courts saying, "we actually did not anticipate this, and neither did Congress, but that's definitely sex discrimination."pic.twitter.com/nZxTSs6oSX
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The Supreme Court's decision today rips the heart out of the Trump administration's crusade to legalize anti-trans discrimination. It's a massive, fatal blow to the legal framework propping up the administration's bigotry. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/06/scotus-trump-lgbtq-discrimination-agenda.html …
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You're still a long way to go. There are things that the court didn't address that should be put in legislation.
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That’s why Roberts joined the majority after seeing Oberfell. IMHO. Could the Grinch grow a heart?
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He wrote a cautious concurrence in Oberfell, noting that this is something Congress should have taken up (but was unable to pass- proposing amendments to Title 7 has happened many times).
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It's interesting that Alito's dissent to recognizing the law's inherent LGBTQ protections is based in part on a full-throated *endorsement* of the politically left-coded idea that sex and gender are totally separate things.pic.twitter.com/4CrJb8QLFm
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How will this impact private religious institutions?
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