Supreme Court Delivers Major Victory To LGBTQ Employees

By Nina Totenberg | knau.org

Updated at 11:27 a.m. ET

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that the 1964 Civil Rights Act barring sex discrimination in the workplace protects LGBTQ employees from being fired because of their sexual orientation.

The vote was 6-to-3, with conservatives Chief Justice John Roberts and Neil Gorsuch joining the court’s four liberal justices in the majority.

The opinion is available here.

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