
It's worth noting the recent departure of Justice Anthony Kennedy from the high court: The Michigan case focuses on gender identity, while the New York and Georgia cases reached differing conclusions about sexual orientation. Without language in the law specifically protecting LGBT people, advocates have argued something quite clever — that the law already protects LGBT folks. Strickland O'Connor v. June 26, Thomas, J.




On Monday, the Supreme Court announced that it would hear three cases that seek to determine whether existing federal law bans workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.


Roe This would be the kind of legal backlash that could take a generation to undo. Mugler v. Big Think Edge Our ability to behave rationally depends not just on our ability to use the facts, but on our ability to give those facts meaning.




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