Alito: SCOTUS Wrong to Rule Civil Rights Law Protects Gay and Transgender Employees

Alito: SCOTUS Wrong to Rule Civil Rights Law Protects Gay and Transgender Employees
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito speaks at Georgetown University in Washington on Feb. 23, 2016. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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As the Supreme Court continues struggling with the unprecedented leak earlier this month of a draft majority opinion that would reverse Roe v. Wade, the draft’s author, Justice Samuel Alito, told a law school audience he was bothered by a court opinion written by a conservative colleague that extended employment protections to gay and transgender employees.