Politics Supreme Court Rules That Civil Rights Act Protects Gay and Transgender People

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  1. Minstrel

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    How long since we've had good news?

    Not naive, race and sex discrimination have been illegal for decades and still happen but enormous victory. Very clear decision. A big weapon in fight for equality.

    Roberts and Gorsuch are not moderate, they are hard right but believe in rule of law. Alito, Thomas, Kavanaugh pure ideologues.
     
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    First good news of 2020, definitely. Of course I fully expect the court to balance this decision out with a horrible one in the next few days.

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    This is huge news. I'm curious to see if this changes Romer v. Evans (the Colorado "special rights" case). Not sure if there will be any tests to this queued up, but it would seem to create a strict scrutiny standard for any laws that treat LGBTQ differently. Also, this is really a landmark decision as it would protect LGBTQ workers particularly in any states that don't have a state law protecting them, which are a shockingly large amount. Texas for example is a large state with several large cities and has no LGBTQ anti-discrimination laws on its books.
     
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    Landmark! Not expected from such a conservative SC. It seemed they were stacked right to vote for conservative values, i.e keeping gay and transgender people down. Glad they set politics aside and dealt with law like they are supposed to.
     
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    If I remember correctly when Gorsuch was confirmed there was speculation that he might be open to gay rights as an exception to his otherwise ultra-conservative ideology.

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    In general, Gorsuch seems to be more sympathetic to the rights of workers than most conservatives, based on his judicial record. That seems to be what separates him from him the Scalia-like wing: Thomas, Alito, Kavenaugh. They will always go ultra-right on every issue.
     
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    This also strengthens fight against Trump administration's antigay executive orders. From banning trans service members, to allowing medical personnel to deny service, to HUD saying Section 8 housing and homeless shelters can discriminate (the one and only thing Ben Carson did). If employment discrimination is illegal, how is housing/health care discrimination legal?
     
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    It's not. Trump is very unhappy
     
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    John Roberts has proven himself to be an excellent Chief Justice.

    He is conservative, yes, but fair. Not doctrinaire. He voted in favor of this with Gorsuch and the libs, and he voted to uphold Obamacare too. He gave Kennedy the gay marriage opinion to write, knowing that Kennedy was very in favor of that. And he is not in Trump's pocket. Impressive guy.
     
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    Definitely so happy about this today. Absolute landmark ruling, with a definitive 6-3 vote, and it can be used as precedence for the definition of sex and gender legally going forward in other discrimination cases, such as those surely to come against the administration’s stripping of trans and disabled health care coverage.
     
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    It's good to see that unlike the spineless GOP senate, we still have one branch of government that is ruled by law and decency...
     
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    The trans woman who’s case the SCOTUS heard didn’t live to see the judgment.

    Every bit of progress in the government only comes after years of struggle and fighting, often real. They only gave us rights because we gave them riots. It’s possible they ruled this way to prevent more intense protests, which is a victory the protesters should take.
     
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    Cross your fingers, barfo.
     
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    I'm certain that Trump's stupid executive order on health care discrimination will soon be negated as will all other discrimination covered by federal law.
    My wife and I were overjoyed about this ruling.
    Yes, a bright spot in an otherwise dreary Trump world.
     
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    Bigots having a sad. Some rightists said this is the day the Trump re-election died. He had promised to fill courts with judges who would get rid of gay rights and give all white men guns and get scary brown people out. In one day supreme Court ruled in favor of gay rights and refused to hear cases on sanctuary cities and guns

    I'm just afraid they will balance this with really horrible decisions on upcoming cases, including DACA, enforced religion, women's rights.
     
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    I look on this as a sign of an intellectual court paving the way for more intellectual decisions.

    I'd like to add that my wife and I feel like homosexuals can do whatever other people do as long as they don't otherwise interfere in our lives. Of course this is so basic that there's really no meaning in mentioning it. Like you guys (male, female, whatever) usually do just ignore my post.
     
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    What would I want to interfere in your life? And why do I need permission or approval for mine?

    My gay agenda for today, go to store before senior hour ends. Living my life.
     
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    All due respect I have to disagree. Legal scholars have said the Roberts court has overturned more precedent than any court in history, from voting rights to equal pay to campaign finance. And all in one direction; police power over citizens, corporations over consumers and environment, employers over workers. Roberts was nominated by Bush due to his long history of judicial opposition to voting rights. All the voter suppression and hyperpartisan gerrymandering are direct consequences of overturning voting rights act. I thought Roberts might support marriage equality because he is so pro-corporate and business tended to support it - not because companies love gay folks but because of the headache of having employees who were married on one state and not in another, but he opposed marriage equality. And he never met a women's right he didn't oppose.

    Citizens United was unique in American and Western jurisprudence; for the first time corporations were defined as people and money as speech, so to limit the amount of money corporations could give in elections was a restriction on free speech. So elections became more corrupt. In Hobby Lobby the court determined corporations also have religions, and a company's "religion" takes precedence over the view of employees. So companies can deny birth control if it's against their religion, regardless of the beliefs of the employee. They ruled companies can deny people service if it violates their "religion". I see little to admire in Roberts.
     
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