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Huge victory for LGBT rights as Supreme Court rules protections in the Civil Rights Act extend to sexual orientation and gender identity
- Thread starter Loudninja
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Something good happened. It's been so long I don't know what to do. 🏳️🌈❤️
Is Gorsuch trying to shore up his legacy already by turning on Dump? I still feel like both he and Kavanaugh should be removed from the Supreme Court under the next presidency as they were both instated by an illegitimate criminal.
Is Gorsuch trying to shore up his legacy already by turning on Dump? I still feel like both he and Kavanaugh should be removed from the Supreme Court under the next presidency as they were both instated by an illegitimate criminal.
Gorsuch isn't a political ideologue, never has been. He's a textualist. The issue with Gorsuch has never really been himself, just how he got his seat - he could have been legit nominated in any other administration tbh.
The text of the Constitution is very clear here, so a case like this to him is pretty "why are we even discussing this?"
He'll always side with the word of the Constitution. For better or worse, he doesn't care about the "spirit of the wording", the underlying purpose of the wording, or even his own personal beliefs, just what the wording of the document says.
My favorite ruling of his before this was Washington State Dept. of Licensing v. Cougar Den, Inc where Gorsuch sided with the Yakama Nation.
Removal of a sitting federal judge requires 67 votes in the Senate (same as presidential impeachment), so that will never happen, at least not solely in response to the events we've seen so far.
In an "ideal" world, Kavanaugh should be removed for his perjury during his confirmation hearings, but I don't think there's any legitimate grounds to remove Gorsuch. As shitty as the GOP blockade during Obama's final year was, it was technically allowed.
Gorsuch was put forward as a conservative judge who would reliably play for the team and back big business. But he will apparently do his job, even if with a conservative bent. Conservatives are crying because they WANT a pure stooge, not someone who acts like what the party line claims a conservative is.
If I had to pick I would remove Kavanaugh who is both unfit and probably the genuine Trump stooge here. In a post-Trump world, if the GOP is severely hurt, it might be feasible to get rid of Kavanaugh with all the shit surrounding him. Gorsuch is turning out to be a better alternative to Scalia.
Gorsuch, at least at this moment, seems to actually be a textualist, not a fake one like most conservatives.
Gorsuch is like Amash in that he's the one exception who actually truly believes the ideology he proclaims to follow.
This news is kind of miraculous, after everything that's happened in the past 6 months. Really had to double take to make sure I wasn't misreading and getting unnecessarily happy.
Between this and the news that Millenials and Gen Z are turning hard into progressive ideologies, maybe there's hope in the future.
Between this and the news that Millenials and Gen Z are turning hard into progressive ideologies, maybe there's hope in the future.
You really have to hear him because you do fully get the inflection of his voice which tells you "I don't have a clue what any of this really means, so I'm just gonna vomit vague judicial words and phrases until the sentence ends."
He heard Harry say that on Night Court and thought it sounded good.
Sexual orientation and gender identity were not federally-protected classes before today.
What the actual fuck? (Sorry if that was common knowledge, I'm not from the USA)
It depended on what state you lived in that determined your rights in this. Now ALL states have to abide.
it can seem pretty fucking weird at times
rights rulings usually adapt with the times, but sometimes it can be far too slow
I'm so happy! :)
Now we need to do away with right to work laws so they can't just use any other flimsy excuse to fire you.
Now we need to do away with right to work laws so they can't just use any other flimsy excuse to fire you.
Good. Fucking deal with the L your own jurists gave you for once, social conservatives.
I'll have to dig into the decision later on to really understand this ruling and their application of "textualism."
This is amazing. Also wait until someone in his staff explains the ruling to Trump. That's when you'll get his outburst.
Man, I came out of the closet at work today literally minutes before this judgement was handed down today. Between this and the overwhelmingly positive feedback at work, today has been a little star of positivity set against the fathomless vault of a night sky of misery that this year has been.
Best part? That dude -- who I should remind you is a blogger for The American Conservative -- is framing it like it's a bad thing. (Seriously, his Twitter feed today's just fearmongering over a "Post-Christian America".)
The catch is at-will employment, most states can still fire gay and trans people for being gay/trans as long as the "official" reason on the paperwork is literally anything else.
Both Gorsuch and Roberts voted with the liberals. Hard to say which one pushed it over the edge.
No, Roberts and the liberals voted together with Gorsuch, so it would have happened without him.
But Gorsuch writing the majority opinion was definitely done by Roberts to send a message.
And Roberts if you consider the liberal justices guaranteed.
Yep. You can tell nobody explained to him yet why this is bad for him politically yet with the evangelicals. His honest reaction to the news is that he reeeeeallly doesn't give the slightest fuck either way.
So what does this mean for churches who don't allow LGBT clergy and staff?
Cool really happy with the good news
It depends on which of him or Roberts you think went first, which is impossible to know.
I would personally guess it was Gorsuch, because Roberts doesn't have much of a track record expanding civil liberties, and I could much more easily see him signing on when it was already a done deal.
Thanks.
Today had been a pretty good day overall for me 🥰
I stated earlier that I don't think he gives two shits about this beyond how it helps him electorally, but for a brief mental exercise let's pretend he actually said "oh no. That will play terribly with my evangelicals, what can we do about it?" What could be done about it? An executive order wouldn't overturn a SCOTUS decision and congress would look like complete idiots trying to pass a discriminatory bill that they know won't get anywhere when there are serious issues going on. Can you imagine trying to play the culture wars play this coming election in the middle of a pandemic and while major protests have been going on?