Democrats and gay rights groups oppose Judge Gorsuch, but terviews wh his iends and legal experts suggt that his views are not so easy to terme.
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- NEIL GORSUCH REMARKS DURG SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS CASE SPARK CONCERN
- FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
- GORSUCH NOT EASY TO PIGEONHOLE ON GAY RIGHTS, FRIENDS SAY
NEIL GORSUCH REMARKS DURG SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS CASE SPARK CONCERN
Tmp’s first nomee wr a landmark cisn that says feral law protects gay and transgenr workers. * neil gorsuch gay *
It is a watershed moment om an unlikely thor that means gay, lbian and transgenr workers are protected by feral civil rights law. “Sex means whether you’re male or female, not whether you’re gay or straight, ” he said. While “policy arguments” to amend the law “are very weighty, Kavangh wrote, and while he agreed that “gay and lbian Amerins nnot be treated as social outsts or as ferr digny and worth” he uld not si wh Gorsuch’s terpretatn.
If the first shock Monday morng was that the nservative Supreme Court had livered a landmark victory to gay and transgenr workers, the send was the opn’s thor: Print Tmp’s first nomee for the high urt, Neil M. Karlan and ACLU Legal Director David Cole, reprentg, rpectively, the gay workers and transgenr platiff Aimee Stephens, passed up an appeal to fairns or equaly favor of argug that the broad text of Tle VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act already protected their argument, Gorsuch seemed to accept the view. “It is impossible to discrimate agast a person for beg homosexual or transgenr whout discrimatg agast that dividual based on sex, ” Gorsuch wrote.
Today, we mt ci whether an employer n fire someone simply for beg homosexual or transgenr. An employer who fir an dividual for beg homosexual or transgenr fir that person for tras or actns would not have qutned members of a different sex. The cisn is an unequivol victory for those argug that protectg civil rights the workplace clus protectg gay and transgenr people om workplace discrimatn.
FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
His opn the Supreme Court’s landmark cisn protectg gay, bisexual, and transgenr workers om employment discrimatn surprised and enraged nservativ a faiar manner. But ’s more likely an outlier than a sign of staed heterodoxy. * neil gorsuch gay *
Liberals are unrstandably cisn is an unequivol victory for those argug that protectg civil rights the workplace clus protectg gay and transgenr the big qutn is: How do a cidly nservative Supreme Court make a cidly liberal lg? Congrs did not envisn that was protectg the rights of gay and transgenr workers. "Today, we mt ci whether an employer n fire someone simply for beg homosexual or transgenr.
"An employer who fir an dividual for beg homosexual or transgenr fir that person for tras or actns would not have qutned members of a different sex. Jtice Anthony Kennedy's retirement left many wonrg what would happen to gay and transgenr rights.
Before Monday, Kennedy was the only jtice ever to have thored an opn supportg gay rights. Rights lgs the urt’s history, protectg gay and transgenr people om workplace discrimatn and nfoundg those who thought he would be a reliable nservative on those issu. Jtice Gorsuch led a 6-to-3 majory clarg that gay and transgenr workers are protected by Tle VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibs discrimatn based on race, relign, natnal orig and sex.
GORSUCH NOT EASY TO PIGEONHOLE ON GAY RIGHTS, FRIENDS SAY
Feral civil rights law protects gay, lbian and transgenr workers, the Supreme Court led Monday. * neil gorsuch gay *
“We do not hate to regnize today a necsary nsequence of that legislative choice: An employer who fir an dividual merely for beg gay or transgenr fi the law. ”His ncln: “An employer who fir an dividual for beg homosexual or transgenr fir that person for tras or actns would not have qutned members of a different sex. Jtice Kennedy played a pivotal role many of the biggt gay rights s of the last quarter-century and was the cidg vote and wrote the majory opn Obergefell v.