Tmp’s first nomee wr a landmark cisn that says feral law protects gay and transgenr workers.
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NEIL GORSUCH REMARKS DURG SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS CASE SPARK CONCERN
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.