A Victory for LGBTQ Americans
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2020
⏱️ 22 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.
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| 0:00.0 | On Monday morning, Slate's Mark Joseph Stern got what was for him, some pretty great news. |
| 0:10.8 | Hey, Mark, what a day. |
| 0:13.2 | Hi. |
| 0:14.1 | Wow. |
| 0:14.8 | What a day it is. |
| 0:16.8 | Mark covers the Supreme Court for Slate. |
| 0:19.1 | Feels like it's been too long since we've had a good day, right? |
| 0:24.5 | Okay, so your job in June is to basically hit refresh on the Supreme Court's website, right? |
| 0:31.4 | Correct, correct. |
| 0:32.9 | You're expecting opinions. |
| 0:34.6 | You're hitting refresh. |
| 0:36.4 | What do you see first? So I see the Bostock case pop up, |
| 0:43.1 | and I see that Neil Gorsuch has written it. The Bostock case was about workplace discrimination. |
| 0:50.4 | Monday's decision declares it's illegal to discriminate against gay and transgender people in the workplace. |
| 0:57.0 | And this opinion was written by one of the five conservative justices. |
| 1:01.3 | I thought, oh, it's Gorsuch. That means that the good guys won. |
| 1:06.2 | The good guys won? |
| 1:07.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:08.7 | Interesting. So you thought you knew that Gorsuch would do this. |
| 1:13.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:14.3 | I certainly didn't think that Neil Gorsuch, the first Supreme Court justice appointed by President Trump, |
| 1:21.1 | was a shoe in to secure the civil rights of gay and trans Americans. |
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