New Supreme Court term highlights: 'Dreamers,' LGBTQ rights, religion and the first big abortion case since Kavanaugh joined.
The Supreme Court opens its new term on Monday facing decisions on the so-called Dreamers, LGBTQ rights, religion and abortion.for more than 700,000 young immigrants, known as the Dreamers, who were brought to country illegally as children. And they will rule on whether the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — which forbids job discrimination “because of sex” — protects gay, lesbian, transgender and queer employees from being fired.
and to uphold a Republican-drawn map in North Carolina that allowed the GOP to keep control of 10 of the state’s 13 congressional districts. Relying on Scalia’s approach, U.S. appeals courts in New York, Chicago and Cincinnati ruled recently that job discrimination based on an employee’s sexual orientation or gender identity is illegal discrimination “because of sex” under the federal civil rights act.
A broad coalition of liberal groups support the fired employees. “The principle behind the civil rights law is that employees should be judged on their merits, not on their identity or the identity of their spouse or their softball team,” said Sunu P. Chandy, legal director for the National Women’s Law Center.California and 21 other states have laws that forbid discrimination based on sexual orientation, but Congress has not added such explicit protection to federal law.
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