The Supreme Court Case Testing the Limits of Gorsuch’s Textualism

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If Justice Neil Gorsuch rules against LGBTQ protections, he’ll be admitting that, deep down, he knows his judicial philosophy is deeply flawed

—the Supreme Court confronted this question: Does Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employment discrimination “because of [an] individual’s … sex” forbid discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity?

to marry outside their racial groups, or to ride in a railroad car designated for people of a different race, discriminates on the basis of race. To be sure, nobody thinks that Congress in 1964 intended to ban workplace discrimination against LGBTQ persons when it prohibited discrimination “because of … sex.” But the words of the law turn out to do so, regardless of what Congress had in mind.

So if Gorsuch were to write that employers are able to discriminate on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation—whether because of a concern about precipitating social change or otherwise—critics will surely charge that his textualism is more rhetorical than real. They will say that he pretends to have a consistent interpretive theory, but he’s willing to jettison that theory when he doesn’t like the result it would lead to. That criticism might sting.

 

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