Ignore Prior Opinion and Protect LGBT Rights, Michigan AG Says

The Michigan Attorney General’s Office is telling the Michigan Civil Rights Commission to ignore a prior attorney general opinion and keep protecting LGBT workers from discrimination.

The commission isn’t bound by a 2018 opinion in which former Attorney General Bill Schuette (R) said the commission couldn’t prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, Attorney General Dana Nessel’s (D) office said in a June 18 letter.

The letter didn’t provide the commission what it sought—a new formal opinion saying that the term “because of sex” in a 1976 state law, the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act, ...