DOJ Asks to Argue Orientation Bias Cases Before High Court (1)

The Justice Department asked the U.S. Supreme Court for time to argue its position that sexual orientation bias at work shouldn’t be prohibited under a federal civil rights law.

The Supreme Court is slated to hear arguments on Oct. 8 in a trio of cases that collectively address whether both sexual orientation and gender identity fall under the sex discrimination protections of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The Trump administration’s Justice Department argued to the justices that Congress didn’t intend to include sexual orientation as a protected class when it drafted the law, as it did with ...