Ex-Solicitor General Neal Katyal Praises Gorsuch For Ruling To Protect LGBTQ Rights

ASPEN, CO - JULY 03:  Neal Katyal speaks during the Aspen Ideas Festival 2015 on July 3, 2015 in Aspen, Colorado.  (Photo by Leigh Vogel/WireImage)
Neal Katyal speaks during the Aspen Ideas Festival 2015 on July 3, 2015 in Aspen, Colorado. (Photo by Leigh Vogel/WireImage)
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Former Solicitor General Neal Katyal applauded Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch on Monday after the Trump-appointed judge ruled with the majority in favor of allowing LGBTQ employees to sue for workplace discrimination.

“Here you see what the craft of judging is all about: reviewing a statute, some words enacted by Congress, and interpreting them,” Katyal told MSNBC anchor Ayman Mohyeldin. “Not with some bias toward some policy result you want to get at, but just the text of the statute and what those words actually mean to us as living breathing creatures today.”

“That’s what Justice Gorsuch did,” he continued. “I’m proud of him. I’m proud of the court for reaching this decision.”

Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion after siding with the court’s liberal justices and Chief Justice John Robert in the blockbuster case.

“An employer who fires an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex,” he wrote. “Sex plays a necessary and undisguisable role in the decision, exactly what Title VII forbids.”

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  1. Avatar for gr gr says:

    I, for one, don’t believe the Sup Ct majority in this ruling deserves a pat on the back for doing the right thing. The law was clear on this matter.
    OTOH, they turned down 2nd Amendment cases looking to ease restrictions on guns.

  2. And the elevation of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court is George H. W. Bush’s shittiest decision. It still boggles the mind.

  3. Avatar for robg robg says:

    A 6-3 with a packed court like this is about as close to a 9-0 as you’re gonna get on any controversy. The assessment is clear and obvious and these 3 dissenters should be shit canned for their obvious failure to understand the law.

  4. Avatar for noonm noonm says:

    I’m holding judgement till I see all of the decisions handed down this year. I fear this may be cover for some truly horrendous decisions coming down the pipe.

  5. Wonder if Gorsuch has a family member or close friend in the LGBTQ community?

    Could explain the rare glimmer of compassion.

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