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This week on CounterSpin: A typically temperate Donald Trump decried what he called “horrible & politically charged decisions coming out of the Supreme Court” as “shotgun blasts into the face of people that are proud to call themselves Republicans or Conservatives.”
He meant, of course, the ruling stopping his administration (for now) from ending DACA, the program protecting hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation—and, maybe even more so, the historic ruling from earlier in the week declaring that Title VII of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 does in fact make it illegal for employers to discriminate against a worker because of their sexual orientation or their transgender status. That 6-to-3 decision surprised and elated many. We’ll talk about how we got here and what it means going forward with civil rights attorney Ezra Young, whose litigation and scholarship center on trans rights.
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Transcript: ‘You’re Not Allowed to Read Transgender People Out of Protection Because You Dislike Them’
Plus Janine Jackson takes a look at recent self-examination on the part of corporate media in the wake of the uprising against police violence
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It’s illegal to discriminate on the basis of age and yet it’s standard operating procedure. The laws are toothless.