Post by Portiaami on Jun 17, 2020 14:44:10 GMT
‘Brazen Abuse Of Our Authority’: Alito, Kavanaugh Criticize LGBT SCOTUS Ruling
dailycaller.com/2020/06/15/kavanaugh-alito-supreme-court-transgender-lgbt/
Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh condemned the Supreme Court’s decision Monday that federal law protects LGBT employees from discrimination.
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the court’s four liberal judges in a landmark ruling that involved a 1964 civil rights law that barred discrimination of employees based on sex, according to USA Today. The Supreme Court examined whether the statutory protections should be understood to include both sexual orientation and gender identity.
The Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision that federal law protects LGBT employees from discrimination through focusing on the text of Title VII, language prohibiting discrimination “because of” sex. Title VII may be enforced as long as sex is part of the discrimination, the justices said.
Alito, Kavanaugh, and Justice Clarence Thomas all dissented.
Alito accused the court of “usurping the constitutional authority of the other branches.”
“A more brazen abuse of our authority to interpret statutes is hard to recall,” he said in his dissent. The Supreme Court justice also noted that the judges attempted to frame their decision as “the inevitable product of the textualist school of statutory interpretation championed by our late colleague Justice Scalia.”
dailycaller.com/2020/06/15/kavanaugh-alito-supreme-court-transgender-lgbt/
Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh condemned the Supreme Court’s decision Monday that federal law protects LGBT employees from discrimination.
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the court’s four liberal judges in a landmark ruling that involved a 1964 civil rights law that barred discrimination of employees based on sex, according to USA Today. The Supreme Court examined whether the statutory protections should be understood to include both sexual orientation and gender identity.
The Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision that federal law protects LGBT employees from discrimination through focusing on the text of Title VII, language prohibiting discrimination “because of” sex. Title VII may be enforced as long as sex is part of the discrimination, the justices said.
Alito, Kavanaugh, and Justice Clarence Thomas all dissented.
Alito accused the court of “usurping the constitutional authority of the other branches.”
“A more brazen abuse of our authority to interpret statutes is hard to recall,” he said in his dissent. The Supreme Court justice also noted that the judges attempted to frame their decision as “the inevitable product of the textualist school of statutory interpretation championed by our late colleague Justice Scalia.”
