#Supreme Court rules LGBT workers are protected from job discrimination

The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that existing civil rights legislation protects gay, lesbian and transgender people from discrimination in employment.

The court’s 6-3 decision, written by Trump appointee Justice Neil Gorsuch and joined by Chief Justice John Roberts, said a provision in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 known as Title VII that bars job discrimination because of sex, also covers gay and lesbian workers.

The court’s four liberal justices – Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Stephen Bryer – agreed.


Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanugh dissented.

With Post Wires