A Victory for LGBTQ Americans

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🗓️ 16 June 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

On Monday, the conservative Supreme Court extended civil rights protections to transgender and gay Americans. The ruling is not controversial -- supermajorities of polled citizens say discrimination against LGBTQ people should be illegal. But Monday’s decision comes ahead of a flurry of rulings on other closely-watched cases involving the president’s financial records, the DACA program, abortion rights, and more. Does this win for the left clear a path for the court to hand down some bitter pills in the next few weeks? Guest: Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ah, the sound of spring cleaning.
0:03.6	Steam clean your way to brighter bathrooms and sparkling kitchens with the carcass deem cleaner.
0:09.6	You'll be done before you know it, with more time to pitch your feet up.
0:14.0	Find your carcass deem cleaner at carcature.co.uk or a carcass retailer.
0:20.0	On Monday morning, Slates Mark Joseph Stern got what was for him.
0:29.2	Some pretty great news.
0:30.8	Hey, Mark, what a day!
0:33.2	Hi, wow, what a day it is!
0:37.1	Mark covers the Supreme Court for Slate.
0:39.2	It feels like it's been too long since it's been a good day, right?
0:44.8	Okay, so your job in June is to basically hit refresh on the Supreme Court's website, right?
0:52.0	Correct, correct.
0:53.0	You're expecting opinions.
0:54.8	You're hitting refresh.
0:56.8	What do you see first?
0:58.8	So I see the Boss.Case pop up.
1:03.4	And I see that Neil Gorsuch has written it.
1:06.4	The Boss.Case was about workplace discrimination.
1:10.4	Monday's decision declares it's illegal to discriminate against gay and transgender people in the workplace.
1:17.2	And this opinion was written by one of the five conservative justices.
1:21.2	I thought, oh, it's Gorsuch.
1:22.8	That means that the good guys won.
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