The United States Supreme Court has ruled that discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity is illegal. The case that has reached the Supreme Court is that of Gerald Bostock, a Clayton County municipal employee , who was fired from his job in 2013. The official reason for the dismissal was that Bostock had been found guilty of "improper activities of a public employee" in a case of embezzlement. The person affected, however, considered that he had been expelled for being homosexual.

The case had been decided against Bostock, but he continued to appeal until he reached the Supreme Court, which today, in a decision that has surprised many, has ruled that it is indeed illegal to discriminate against a person at work because of their orientation or their sexual identity. The Court's four left-wing judges have voted in favor of Bostock, as have two of the five conservatives: the president, John Roberts, and Neil Gorsuch, who was nominated for the post by Donald Trump.

The argument of the three judges who voted against - conservatives Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, and Clarence Thomas - is that what Bostock lost to the Court was, fundamentally, to alter the law. This argument is due to the fact that in the United States there is no law that protects people at work based on their sexual orientation and, therefore, to approve this measure it is necessary to extend the scope of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which It was created to protect the black minority and, among other things, allow members of that community to exercise the right to vote without being killed, kicked out of their homes, or fired from work.

The problem is that Congress has not been able to pass an extension of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to people's sexual orientation. In fact, as leftist judges Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan recalled , the 1964 Law also did not protect victims of sexual harassment, and it has been the Supreme Court's decisions that have criminalized such conduct under the cover of that text. legal.

In the next few days, the Supreme Court is expected to issue two more extremely important opinions: one, on the dreamers, that is, a million people who came to the United States as minors - in many cases, children - and whose immigration status It is the subject of dispute, and another on the more than controversial Donald Trump's Personal Income Tax Declaration .

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