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My mom (Republican, lawyer) assured me (trans) that the Court would of course rule that Title VII protects queer and trans people from discrimination, as the pl
by sterlind 6y ago
My mom (Republican, lawyer) assured me (trans) that the Court would of course rule that Title VII protects queer and trans people from discrimination, as the plain meaning of the law forbids punishing employees for not conforming to gender stereotypes. She said that the conservative justices, being textualists, would agree.
I laughed it off and thought she was drinking the Kool-Aid, but damned if she didn't read the future. Kavanagh forsook textualism, but Gorsuch wrote for the majority, using exactly the language my mom argued.
- srtjstjsj 6y agoThe court has 5 conservatives and only 2 of them agreed. Textualism is a very weak foundation for a question which is relevant primarily because the issues at hand were not understood well enough to be part of the language when the law was written.
- amdavidson 6y agoAutomatic rifles would like to have a word with you.