Judges consider extending federal workplace protections for sexual orientation

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In a case that could extend workplace protection to the LGBT community, federal appellate judges in Chicago are reconsidering whether the Civil Rights Act of 1964 applies to discrimination based on sexual orientation.

The case, heard Wednesday before a full panel of 7th Circuit Court judges, revolves around a South Bend, Ind., math teacher who contends she was repeatedly denied promotions and fired from the Indiana community college where she worked because she is a lesbian.

Kimberly Hively brought the federal lawsuit against Ivy Tech Community College in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana in August 2014. Judges dismissed her case in March 2015, finding that Hively failed to state her claim under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which bans workplace discrimination by sex but doesn't explicitly address sexual orientation. A panel of three 7th Circuit judges upheld that ruling in a 42-page opinion issued in July, but all 12 judges voted in October to vacate that ruling and rehear the case.

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http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lgbt-workplace-protections-20161201-story.html

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1. I hope we can get this issue to the SCOTUS before Trump is able ...

to infest it with one of his "deplorable" choices.

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2. No chance of that, unfortunately.

I am pretty use a SC deplorable will be one of his first action items.

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3. Do you think the Repugs will "go nuclear" with regard to ...

SCOTUS nominations? As things stand now, I expect Senate Dems to filibuster any Trump nomination to the high court.

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4. I think they will, if they get stymied

Remember Reid already did that with fed judge nominations. So the R's can just say they are doing the same with SCOTUS.

I personally think there will be some D defections, especially if tRump (or really, Pence) finds an Alito clone who doesn't have that much of a record and can be snuck through. It will be telling to see if he goes that route, or picks a firebrand who will cause a war in the Senate confirmation hearings.

The Senate voted 58-42 on Tuesday, January 31,2006 to confirm Alito as the 110th Justice of the Supreme Court. All but one of the 55 Senate Republicans voted to confirm Alito, as well as four Democrats: Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE), Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV), Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD), and Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND).

It is all about finding 60 votes for cloture, then the DINOS can go back to 'voting their conscious'...