 Anyone who's been paying attention knows that the Supreme Court has been hijacked by far-right extremists, but not all Extremists are ideologically the same. There is some variation and Elito is for whatever reason as of late trying to distinguish himself as the most extreme as the firebrand conservative on The court and he is going to demonstrate this by attacking his colleagues for not being anti gay enough This is actually something that He did not kidding as Kate Riga of talking points memo explains at a Thursday night event at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University Elito had harsh words for the two conservative Justices who joined the majority in Bostock v. Clayton County the 2020 opinion said that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Which prohibits sex-based discrimination Extends to gay and transgender workers Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion in which he was joined by the Liberals and Chief Justice John Roberts Speaking via a video feed Thursday Elito called Gorsuch a colleague and a friend but said that grounding the decision in the text of the 1964 law was in my view indefensible according to the Washington Post the court's opinion is like a pirate ship He wrote in his dissent it sails under a textualist flag But what it actually represents is a theory of statutory interpretation that Justice Scalia Exoriated the theory that court should update old statutes so that they better reflect the current values of society Oh, no because updating old statutes to better reflect a change in society would be terrible. Wouldn't it now? You know this article gave us a summary of that case But I will link you to the Cornell summary of the Bostock v. Clayton County case But basically the Supreme Court held that an employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender Violates title 7 so in other words, you can't literally fire someone because they're gay or transgender But Elito is saying no actually you should be able to fire someone for being gay or transgender Specifically, you don't have to cite any other reason just you're gay and I don't like that and that should be permissible Constitutionally he says it's indefensible to think that there should be protections for LGBTQ plus workers It's just absurd the Supreme Court has maintained for a while that you can't discriminate on the basis of immutable characteristics That's unconstitutional. You can't discriminate against someone for being gay the same as you can't discriminate against someone for being a woman But Elito is saying yeah, actually you should be able to do that This is an individual who's so extreme that he thinks that being gay isn't a right but being able to discriminate against gay people is but yet He's not partisan No, he is a partisan hack now This isn't the first time that Elito has spoken out against constitutional rights for LGBTQ plus people for example When he gave a keynote speech at the Federalist Society in November of 2020 He slammed the Supreme Court decision was struck down bans on same-sex marriages saying it has led to censorship of people Who believe marriage is a union of one man and one woman and says freedom of speech is falling out of favor in some circles now in the draft Opinion where he overturns Roe he also said that gay intimacy and same-sex marriages were decisions based on phony rights that are not deeply rooted in history So he's salivating over the prospect of taking away rights from LGBTQ plus people It's just ridiculous and we're supposed to believe that the Supreme Court is apolitical I mean he is as extreme as it gets. He's an explicitly partisan actor But yet we're supposed to believe that he's guided by some judicial philosophy. I mean no He does what reactionaries want He does what he wants and then he applies a judicial philosophy to his reasoning in order to legitimize it But there's no legitimacy there. The Supreme Court is an illegitimate institution He's just legislating at this point, which ironically he would accuse his colleagues of doing I mean if you want to write laws Elito run for Congress, but you shouldn't be on the Supreme Court Like he's broadcasting to people. Hey, all of these protections that LGBTQ plus people have fought for in one Send them to the Supreme Court We'll grant you a writ of certiary and I will strike them down on make sure that that happens It's it's ridiculous, but it's it's really believable. It's not surprising, right? We should never become accustomed to this But this is what's happening and it's time for people to acknowledge that the Supreme Court is a Neckadly political institution at this point and to pretend otherwise isn't just harmful, but it's incredibly naive Do you enjoy watching independent news shows like the humanist report the rational national and the majority report? But oftentimes YouTube doesn't deliver our videos to your subscription box. 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