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The dramatic oral arguments may lead to landmark rulings on a president's immunity from investigation while in office and Congress' oversight powers.
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Rulings against the president could lead to the campaign season release of personal financial information that Trump has kept shielded.
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How the court decides these cases could dramatically change the balance of power among the three branches of government, shifting America's system of ...
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The Supreme Court is considering Tuesday whether the House of Representatives and a New York prosecutor can subpoena President Donald Trump's ...
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The Supreme Court is continuing to hold oral arguments via teleconference due to the coronavirus pandemic. And in a historic first, it's also allowing oral ...
Continue readingSupreme Court Hears Arguments On LGBTQ Employment Rights Case
Outside the Supreme Court this morning, the atmosphere veered from festive to fraught ahead of arguments in a major LGBTQ case. Hundreds of demonstrators with rainbow flags as well as dozens of TV crews found themselves suddenly herded away by ...
Continue readingSupreme Court to Hear Cases on Bias Against Gay and Transgender Workers
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Tuesday on whether a landmark civil rights law protects gay and transgender people from workplace discrimination. The court has not heard a gay rights case since the retirement last year of ...
Continue reading9 Landmark Supreme Court Cases That Shaped LGBTQ Rights in America
And just as advocates fought their battle American culture, they also did so in the courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. Over the last half a century, the court first denied and then affirmed that LGBTQ people have the right to consensual sex, and then the ...
Continue readingUS Supreme Court arguments on gay, transgender rights coincide with widening culture wars overseas
After U.S. representatives abroad voiced concern over a number of global anti-LGBTQ moves this year, two Supreme Court cases could bring the debate over gay and transgender rights home in the coming weeks. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court took on a ...
Continue readingWhy the Supreme Court case on LGBT worker protections will be pivotal
Hundreds of people filled the streets outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday to share their views on an issue that could have significant ramifications on the lives of LGBT Americans in the workplace. The case, considered one of the most consequential of the ...
Continue readingSupreme Court Considers Whether Civil Rights Act Protects LGBT Workers
WASHINGTON — In a pair of exceptionally hard-fought arguments on Tuesday, the Supreme Court struggled to decide whether a landmark 1964 civil rights law bars employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and transgender status.
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Washington (CNN) For nearly a quarter century, the US Supreme Court has set down constitutional protections for gay men and lesbians, a trend that reached a dramatic high point in its 2015 decision declaring a right to same-sex marriage. The nine justices ...
Continue readingSupreme Court considering whether gay, transgender workers are protected by federal law
The Supreme Court began considering Tuesday whether federal discrimination laws protect gay and transgender workers in one of its most consequential issues of the term. The issue for the court is the reach of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which, ...
Continue readingShowdown Over LGBTQ Employment Rights Hits Supreme Court
At the U.S. Supreme Court, the long-awaited showdown over the rights of LGBTQ employees is center stage. On Tuesday, the justices hear a set of cases testing whether the federal law that bars sex discrimination in employment applies to LGBTQ employees.
Continue readingSupreme Court Considers Whether LGBT Workers Are Protected by the Civil Rights Act
WASHINGTON — In a pair of exceptionally hard-fought arguments on Tuesday, the Supreme Court considered a host of flash points in the culture wars — including sports, dress codes, religious objections to same-sex couples and, especially, bathrooms — in ...
Continue readingSupreme Court appears divided over LGBTQ job discrimination
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appeared to be closely divided after hearing two hours of courtroom arguments Tuesday on one of the most important issues of the term: whether existing federal law forbids job discrimination on the basis of sexual ...
Continue readingJustice Gorsuch emerges as an unlikely swing vote in the LGBTQ discrimination cases
At least, that was the impression that emerged after arguments in three cases the Supreme Court heard on Tuesday, where Gorsuch appeared to be the swing vote. Two of those cases, Altitude Express Inc. v. Zarda and Bostock v. Clayton County, ask whether ...
Continue readingBrett Kavanaugh Asked Just One Question During His First Big LGBTQ Case On The Supreme Court
WASHINGTON — In the first major LGBTQ rights case to reach the US Supreme Court since he became a justice last year, Justice Brett Kavanaugh gave little away during arguments on Tuesday, asking only one question. The court heard two cases about ...
Continue readingSupreme Court is divided over gay, transgender job bias in civil rights case to be decided during 2020 election
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court appeared deeply divided Tuesday on a major civil rights question: whether gay and transgender people are covered by a federal law barring employment discrimination on the basis of sex. The court's rulings in three ...
Continue readingTrump nominees could play pivotal role as Supreme Court decides on protections for gay, transgender workers
The Supreme Court appeared divided Tuesday about whether federal discrimination laws protect gay and transgender workers, and President Trump's appointments to the court could play the pivotal roles in deciding the outcome. The issue, one of the most ...
Continue readingSupreme Court appears split as it weighs 2 landmark cases on LGBTQ rights
A seemingly divided Supreme Court on Tuesday heard highly anticipated cases on whether federal civil rights law should apply to LGBTQ people, with Chief Justice John Roberts questioning how doing so would affect employers. In the first of two cases, the ...
Continue readingHow the LGBTQ rights cases before the Supreme Court affect all Americans
The Supreme Court hears oral arguments on Tuesday in three cases that could decimate legal protections for LGBTQ workers in America. The cases, Altitude Express Inc. v. Zarda, Bostock v. Clayton County, and R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v.
Continue readingUS Supreme Court hears major LGBT rights cases
The US Supreme Court is considering whether civil rights law that bars workplace discrimination applies to gay and transgender workers. It is hearing two cases on alleged discrimination of gay men by employers, and a third involving transgender ...
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