Rapid Reaction: The Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Whether You Can Be Fired for Being Gay or Trans

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4.8 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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This morning, the Supreme Court heard arguments in the three cases that will ultimately decide whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act protects gay and trans employees from employment discrimination. Jess attended the arguments and then joined Imani for a breakdown of the most important moments. Jess then interviews Claudia Trevor-Wright about the experience of being arrested during Court-related protest actions.

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0:00.0	Hello, fellow law nerds.
0:09.0	Welcome to an emergency episode of Boom Lawyer, a rewire.
0:12.6	News podcast hosted by the legal journalism team that is holding everyone in the LGBTQ community
0:19.5	in our hearts.
0:21.2	I'm Imani Gandhi.
0:22.5	And I'm Jess Piclo.
0:24.1	Rewire.
0:24.5	News is dedicated to bringing you the best reproductive rights and social justice news, commentary,
0:29.4	and analysis on the web.
0:30.8	And the Team Legal podcast is part of that mission.
0:33.0	So a big thank you to our subscribers and a welcome to our new listeners.
0:36.5	So this morning, our intrepid court whisperer, that's you, Jess, attended oral arguments
0:41.6	regarding the three Title VII cases, Altitude Express v. Zarda, Bostock versus Clayton County, Georgia,
0:49.5	and Harris Funeral Homes v. EEOC. In these trio of cases, the court will decide whether or not the
0:55.7	prohibition on discrimination because of sex in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act actually
1:01.2	includes discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation. Now, we've
1:07.2	talked about these cases quite a bit, and for a more in-depth discussion of the facts of these cases, please check out our October 3rd episode where we go into it in great length.
1:17.2	But I want to just jump right into what the scene at the Supreme Court was like today, Jess. Can you describe what it was like?
1:24.5	Were there a lot of protesters? Were there a lot of counter protesters? What was
1:28.2	the police presence like? Just, you know, give us some background here. Sure. What was it like in the soup?
1:35.3	I will say that when I got there this morning, I got there early. They wanted press to be in by around
1:40.9	845 or so. And I was outside of the court well before that.
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