Alito and Thomas Smack Gorsuch: ‘A More Brazen Abuse of Our Authority to Interpret Statutes is Hard to Recall’, by Terence P. Jeffrey

Justice Samuel Alito was joined by Justice Clarence Thomas today in issuing a scathing dissent to the opinion of the court that was written by Justice Neil Gorsuch in the case of Bostock vs. Clayton County.

The question: Whether the ban on employment discrimination based on “sex” that is included Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 also extends to homosexuality and transgenderism?

The case was decided 6-3, with Gorsuch and Chief Justice John Roberts joining Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Stephen Breyer in concluding that—under the 1964 law–discrimination based on homosexuality or transgenderism is legally the same as discrimination based on a person’s sex.

Alito, Thomas and Justice Brett Kavanaugh dissented. Thomas joined in the dissent written by Alito and Kavanaugh filed his own dissent.  …

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