AG Jeff Sessions Thinks Circuit Judges Must've Read The Failing Newspaper Of Record Before Reversing Themselves

AG Jeff Sessions Thinks Circuit Judges Must’ve Read The Failing Newspaper Of Record Before Reversing Themselves

Or, they decided that the standing precedent was incorrect.

By Staci Zaretsky on February 27, 2018 11:26 am

AG Jeff Sessions (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty)

We believe we’re on the right principle there. And I guess maybe the judges woke up that morning, read the New York Times or something, and decided their previous ruling was wrong.

— Attorney General Jeff Sessions, criticizing the Second Circuit’s recent en banc ruling that employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation must be barred under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, before a group of state attorneys general in Washington, D.C. The Second Circuit reversed itself in making this decision. The Justice Department submitted an amicus brief to the Second Circuit, arguing that the issue had been “settled for decades,” and that Title VII does not prohibit sexual orientation discrimination “as a matter of law.”

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