Supreme Court's LGBT Discrimination Decision Revives Interest in the Federal Equality Act
The Equality Act would significantly expand government power and it also threatens religious freedom.
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Textualism and Purposivism in Today's Supreme Court Decision on Discrimination Against Gays, Lesbians, and Transsexuals
The decision in Bostock v. Clayton County is well-justified from the standpoint of textualism (a theory associated with conservatives), but less clearly so from the standpoint of purposivism (often associated with liberals).
Supreme Court Rules, 6–3, That LGBT Workplace Discrimination Violates Civil Rights Act
Justice Neil Gorsuch's majority decision offers a textualist argument for the ruling.
Hey FDA! There's a Massive Blood Shortage. Let Gay and Bisexual Men Give Blood Already.
The agency should relax the yearlong deferral period.
Can a City Refuse To Use a Foster Agency That Discriminates Against Same-Sex Couples?
The Supreme Court is about to tackle the issue.
New York City's Commission on Human Rights Thinks It Can Tell Prada What To Sell. Prada Agrees.
The city's overzealous commission has ordered the company to stop selling dolls some said were racial caricatures.
Trump's Expanded Travel Ban Compounds the Wrongs of Previous Versions
The courts may not strike it down. But it remains both illegal and deeply unjust.
New Trump Administration Regulations Say That Affordable Housing Is Fair Housing
The Trump administration's proposed rewrite of fair housing regulations would ditch lengthy Obama-era reporting requirements in favor of a laserlike focus on housing affordability.
Trump's Order Aimed at Fighting Anti-Semitism Is Constitutionally Problematic, but It's Not Anti-Semitic
Erroneous reporting set off a bizarre backlash that obscured the real problem.
An LGBT Discrimination Compromise Bill Is Proposed in an Uncompromising Culture
The “Fairness for All Act” would add federal protections against discrimination for gay and trans people. But its exemptions go too far or not far enough, depending on who you ask.
Everyone Is Confused About Trump's Executive Order on Judaism
Plus: the foundations bankrolling bad tech policy, they is the word of the year, and more...
Feds Sue California City Over Law That Mandated Evictions for Criminal Activity—Even When No One Was Arrested or Charged
A Department of Justice lawsuit argues Hesperia’s rental ordinance amounts to illegal racial discrimination.
Bill Barr is Wrong to Claim Courts Cannot Examine Government Motives
Assessment of motives is often an essential tool for protecting our constitutional rights.
Kentucky Printer Wins Fight To Refuse To Print Pro-LGBT Shirts
But the technical nature of the decision might not stop future lawsuits.
Gorsuch May Be Swing Vote in Decision Whether Civil Rights Act Protects LGBT Workers From Discrimination
Justices weigh textual conflict over what counts as “sex discrimination” versus what Congress originally intended.
Supreme Court Will Finally Hear Arguments Over Federal LGBT Discrimination Protections
Does the Civil Rights Act of 1964 cover sexual orientation and gender identity?
New York City Declares Using the Term 'Illegal Alien' Can Result in a $250,000 Fine
The Commission on Human Rights is likely running afoul of the First Amendment.
Arizona's Supreme Court Rules Christian Calligraphers Can't Be Forced to Make Gay Wedding Invitations
Justices rule that invitations are expressive speech and businesses cannot be compelled to write messages they oppose.
Everybody Suddenly Realizes the Supreme Court Is About To Hear an Important LGBT Issue
It’s the Trump administration vs. civil rights groups on federal protections from workplace discrimination.
No Woman Should Be Forced to Give a Troll a Brazilian Bikini Wax
Transgender activist Jessica Yaniv has forced the British Columbia Human Rights council to hear a truly absurd complaint.
Washington Supreme Court Says Obesity Is a Disability
"It is illegal for employers in Washington to refuse to hire qualified potential employees because the employer perceives them to be obese."
Kamala Harris' Plan To End the Racial Homeownership Gap Doubles Down on the Worst Aspects of U.S. Housing Policy
The 2020 contender wants to give $25,000 grants to homebuyers living in historically segregated neighborhoods.
Supreme Court Orders Oregon To Reconsider Gay Wedding Cake Case
SCOTUS wants to see anti-discrimination laws applied without religious bias.
Masterpiece Cakeshop Faces Yet Another Legal Fight over Cakes
After the state ends a lawsuit over a transgender celebration cake, the customer files her own civil claim.
With the Equality Act, Congressional Democrats Want To Redefine 'Sex' To Include Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation
Here's why that's a bad idea—and it has nothing to do with God's wrath, women's rights rollbacks, or locker-room predators.
Supreme Court To Consider Whether Civil Rights Act Protects Gay and Transgender Workers
Does current precedent forbidding discrimination on the basis of sex-based stereotypes apply here?
Does Yale Law School's Antidiscrimination Policy on Subsidies for Student Employment Discriminate on the Basis of Religion?
The answer is no, despite conservatives' claims to the contrary. But that does not entirely resolve questions about the wisdom of the policy.
Bad Math and Worse Policy Ideas on Equal Pay Day
Plus: closing the border is bad for U.S. "profits" and Jesse Singal on left-wing identitarianism.
Supreme Court Declines To Consider Whether a Bed and Breakfast Can Discriminate Against Gay Couples
A state-level decision against the property owner shows the limits of the Supreme Court's wedding cake ruling.
Congressional Democrats Reintroduce LGBT-Protecting Equality Act
But is it actually even needed?
The Supreme Court's Recent Religious Liberty/Death Penalty Decision is Bad -- But Not Quite as Bad as Many Think
The justices were wrong to reject a religious discrimination claim in a case where a person sentenced to death was not allowed access to a Muslim cleric at the moment of death. But the decision was not the result of anti-Muslim bigotry.
A Court Denies that Charges Against Topless Beachgoers is Gender-Based Discrimination
The city defines nudity as showing nipple, but only if you're a woman.
A Texas County's GOP Is Split Over the Vice Chair's Muslim Religion
Shahid Shafi identifies as a Republican because he believes in small government.
Stossel: End Racial Preferences at Colleges?
Asians sue Harvard for discrimination in a case that may end college racial preferences.
Case Involving Baker Who Refused To Make a Transgender-Friendly Cake Pushes Forward
Is he rejecting a customer or rejecting a message? The difference matters.
Does Living Constitutionalism Lead to "Dying Constitutionalism"?
Living constitutionalists argue that their methodology allows us to improve constitutional law over time. But what if it actually makes it worse? Legal scholar Ernest Young raises that very question in an important new article.
Will Supreme Court Tackle More LGBT Cases Next Term?
Justices are being asked yet again to argue about wedding cakes and whether the Civil Rights Act covers discrimination against gay and transgender people.
Let Competition, Not Law, Determine Who Gets Into Harvard
The most sensible and effective way to police private college admissions practices isn't litigation or regulation, but competition.
U.K.'s Top Court Sides with Baker in Gay Cake Case
No, a baker cannot be compelled to "support gay marriage" with frosting.
India Realizes Victorian Era Is Over, Decriminalizes Homosexuality
A ban on gay sex dated back to 1861, when India was ruled by the British.
The Case for a Consistent Approach to Government Discrimination on the Basis of Religion
Both right and left decry implicit government discrimination on the basis of religion when it targets groups they sympathize with. But both are all too ready to turn a blind eye in other cases.
Could Violating Federal Housing Laws Finally Bring Facebook Down?
The feds hound Facebook for ads that allegedly violate the Fair Housing Act.
