The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) appeared to support the idea of making it easier for men, Whites and straight people to sue for job discrimination, based on oral arguments Wednesday in the case of an Ohio woman who claims she faced anti-straight bias in the workplace.
The high court’s conservative supermajority and at least some of the liberal justices seemed receptive to arguments by Marlean Ames, who is challenging rulings by many of the nation’s courts that require members of majority groups to meet a higher standard to prove job discrimination than groups that have traditionally faced bias.
Ames filed a job discrimination lawsuit in 2020 after she was removed from her job as an administrator at the Ohio government agency overseeing juvenile corrections. Her position was given to a younger gay man.
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