SCOTUS Tees Up Next Civil Rights Rollback
Get ready for another round of judicial acrobatics. The conservative Supreme Court supermajority just added a new religious discrimination dispute to its November docket, signaling yet another opportunity for reactionary judges to carve loopholes into federal civil rights protections.
The Supreme Court released its November argument calendar on Friday, adding several high-profile disputes to its docket. Among the cases selected for oral argument is a major religious discrimination dispute concerning federal employment protections and religious accommodations in the workplace. The justices agreed to hear arguments over how far employers must go to accommodate employees’ religious practices under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The court’s decision to take the case comes as conservative legal groups continue pushing the justices to expand religious exemptions across public and private sectors.