Posted on 06/28/2021 10:33:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
On Monday, the Supreme Court announced it would not take up the case Gavin Grimm v. Gloucester County School Board (2020), a high-profile case concerning whether or not Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 forbids schools from designating bathrooms according to biological sex. The school board had allowed single-user restrooms as an alternative to dropping the sex-specific restroom policy, but Grimm challenged it, anyway.
A panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Grimm, a female student who identifies as male and sought to use the boys’ restroom. In the 2-1 ruling, Judge Henry F. Floyd twisted the Supreme Court’s ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County (2020) in order to strike down the school board’s policy.
The Supreme Court had the option of taking up the case and clarifying the issue, but the Court refused to grant certiorari. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito voted to take up the case. Neither they nor the Court as a whole issued any opinion explaining their reasoning.
In Bostock, the Court ruled that when Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 forbids discrimination on the basis of sex in employment decisions, that also forbids discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI). In a powerful dissent, Alito condemned the ruling as “preposterous” because Congress had tried and failed to amend Title VII in order to include a prohibition of SOGI discrimination and because no one interpreted the law this way until 1971.
Even so, in that preposterous ruling, Gorsuch explicitly stated that the logic of Bostock does not necessarily apply to bathroom cases.
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Here’s what Gorsuch wrote in his ruling:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/17-1618_hfci.pdf
“The employers worry that our decision will sweep beyond Title VII to other federal or state laws that prohibit sex discrimination. And, under Title VII itself, they say sex-segregated bathrooms, locker rooms, and dress codes will prove unsustainable after our decision today.
But none of these other laws are before us; we have not had the benefit of adversarial testing about the meaning of their terms, and we do not prejudge any such question today. Under Title VII, too, we do not purport to address bathrooms, locker rooms, or anything else of the kind,”
Gorsuch was supposed to be the most Antonin Scalia-like Justice of the panel.
I’m not believing any more hype.
Weasel words.
It boggles the mind that folks like him and Kavanaugh can be considered “conservative”!
There were a lot of conservatives who voted for Trump in 2016 only because of the importance of Supreme Court nominations. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of them stayed home in 2020 simply because they lost faith in the entire political/judicial process after that outrageous ruling in the Bostock case.
The actual boys in the school should strongly discourage the tranny from infiltrating their bathroom. Back in my day that’s the way it would have been. I’m thinking things would change. This nonsense spreads only if we allow it. How stupid are today’s children to accept the tranny BS?
The when he/she is raped it will be set for life after the lawyers weigh in.
None of Trump’s SCOTUS picks will pan out.
They are all squishy in their own way.
Gorsuch left Roman Catholicism as an adult to join the apostate Episcopal Church of the USA (ECUSA), and to assume a leadership position in his parish.
There are only two issues that could persuade an adult, otherwise of sound mind, to make this move:
1) Female priests and bishops
2) Approval of open homosexuality and abortion
I said this right here at the time of his nomination. And he has, so far, proven me right.
“It boggles the mind that folks like him and Kavanaugh can be considered “conservative!” Those Justices that President Trump nominated were at or near the Top of the List of The Heritage Foundations List of Conservative judges. What Heritages methodology is for listing Conservative judges I do not know.
What we went through for Kavanaugh was wasted the fight was a waste of time and energy!!
My God, what happened to our 6-3 majority?
Those squishy sons of bitches are worthless as teats on a boar hog or even on a sow.
All 3 justices picked by President Trump have proven to fake in their claims of being constitutionalist advocates.
We need to convince President Trump if he ever gets back in office that a Freeper vetting group should offer guidance. We couldn’t do worse could we?
I think they all had a decent track record. However, threats, pressure, and money have all tainted the Trump justices.
Roberts was NEVER on our side NEVER he was a Lib from day one we thought we had a 5-4 court WE DON’T the Heritage Foundation WHO gave these judges to Trump has become just like the Lincoln Foundation!!
RE: It boggles the mind that folks like him and Kavanaugh can be considered “conservative”!
Ever since the November 2020 Presidential election, I am beginning to have my doubts about Amy Coney Barrett as well.
“However, since we knew we were going to rule this way on this case, I can’t wait to actually address this question at our earliest possible opportunity!!”
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