U.S. Supreme Court: Post-Nino Edition

featuring 11 pages of dictionary definitions of the word "sex."

looooool

Apparently there are a bunch of uncompressed scanned images in the boomer opinion too which is why it is hundreds of megabytes

They are so upset lol pic.twitter.com/rCe642fmZ0

— Billy M (@Wideoverload) June 15, 2020

It's hard to overstate how much this administration has staked its anti-LGB-and-especially-T agenda on its misreading of Title VII. It's now an achilles heel in built into almost every terrible regulation and enforcement action for past 4 years.

— Josh Block (@JoshABlock) June 15, 2020

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Alito online right now ordering one of these and asking everyone where he signs up to become a "TERF."

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lol at the fed society fretting

As Alfred likes to say, pobrecitos

Let's remember: Alito once admitted to putting John Cheever's Falconer down when in college because it was too seamy.

or semen-y

he likes no jiggery-pokery

As Alfred likes to say, pobrecitos

― all cats are beautiful (silby), Monday, June 15, 2020 3:55 PM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Is that that drink with the vermouth that he's always raving about?

Pobrecitos I make when I'm out of money.

Jiggery-pokery would also make a good bev name.

featuring 11 pages of dictionary definitions of the word "sex."

looooool

― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Monday, June 15, 2020 11:37 AM (thirty-six minutes ago)

LGB-and-especially-T

LGB ‘n’ T..... with a twist

LGB and especially spillin' T

major source of my happiness: a righteous ruling by the court

minor source of schadenfreude: Alito’s batshit crazy meltdown

Quick glance that they also decided (or at least decided not to hear?) cases that would have strengthened ICE and gun rights nuts, but went the other way.

I didn't delve too far into those but I trust that the fed society upthread saying there were four straight massacres at SCOTUS this morning meant good things all around.

for roberts and gorusch, is this a signal that theyre concerned abt the legitimacy of the court? like, "ah ha we'll show you who the partisan shills are" while still voting mostly along party lines.

Gorsuch is just young enough to have grown up, I assume, around plenty of gays and closeted gays.

So… he’s alive?

so alive

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Ned shared w/me Rod Dreher's wheelbarrow of dung, but this paragraph struck me:

I have heard an argument that Roberts joined the majority in order to retain the right to assign the opinion. If Roberts had joined the other three in the losing dissent, Justice Ginsburg would have written the majority opinion, which would have looked different from what Gorsuch wrote. In other words, the chief justice made a strategic move to protect as much religious liberty as he could in the face of a conservative loss. The logic is: better a 6-3 decision with a conservative justice writing for the majority than a 5-4 decision with a liberal justice doing so. This may be the case; I don’t know. Keep it in mind, though; Roberts might not be the villain many of us social conservatives think he is.

Note the last sentence.

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the real test, of course, is how they will vote in the election :/

interesting to go back and read this https://www.scotusblog.com/2019/10/argument-analysis-justices-divided-on-federal-protections-for-lgbt-employees/

The outcome of the two cases could hinge on Justice Neil Gorsuch, who at times appeared sympathetic to the plaintiffs’ argument but also expressed concern about the “massive social upheaval” that he believed would follow from a ruling for them.

#SCOTUS reverses decision by 4th Circuit, upholds permit for $8 billion natural gas pipeline that will tunnel under Appalachian Trail

— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) June 15, 2020

(and the other 6 in favor obv but I don't see their slay queen memes)

I may have actually injured a lung laughing at the mental image of a Clarence Thomas "YAAAAAAAAAS SLAY QUEEN" meme

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YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS

I worked as quickly as I could

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GO GIRL

hahahahaha

The law school meme group is on fire today pic.twitter.com/1Ea4HgGr1V

— Detective Pikajew wants Bill de Blasio gone (@clapifyoulikeme) June 15, 2020

gotta say, gorsuch can write

Yeah, the paragraphs I quoted and the way he (or his clerks) wrote crystalline prose throughout meant he had non-lawyers in mind.

This Gorsuch decision is not originalist in any way; he acknowledges as much. It is simply a bad, outcome-driven legal decision. And it throws religious liberty, free speech, and employment law into complete turmoil.

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) June 15, 2020

mmmmmm delicious tearx

Gosh what are plainspoken decent Americans going to do if they can't discriminate against gay and trans people?? Such turmoil, so upheaval

what "turmoil"?

Well there's obviously going to be turmoil the instant a gay person needs to be fired for being gay and their employer has to invent some other excuse. It'll be chaos!

cynically, at-will employment laws in many states mean all gay/trans people will now just be documented as "lazy"
it's still a great ruling and good step

Tossing out at-will laws is a whole other battle that needs to happen.

Having not yet read the opinion, I can say this seems to bring Title VII in line with California law. So, Mr. Shapiro, no real turmoil here.

wait hang on a second

The question came to the court in three different cases, all argued on the same day last October. Donald Zarda, a skydiving instructor, and Gerald Bostock, a child-welfare-services coordinator for Clayton County, Georgia, filed lawsuits in federal court alleging that they were fired because they were gay, which violated Title VII. In Zarda’s case, which was continued by his estate after he died in a base-jumping accident in 2014, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit agreed with Zarda that Title VII bars discrimination based on sexual orientation.

a very good decision by his executor. the costs of the suit, plus damages, will probably be awarded to his estate.

Intentionally burning down a neighbor’s house is arson, even if the perpetrator’s ultimate intention (or motivation) is only to improve the view.