As you can see in the previous dispatch, I expected to awake this morning to news of something maddening and pernicious done by that awful guy in the White House. Instead, we have the news that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 bans discrimination in the workplace against LGBTQ employees. What's more, it comes at a time when the Trump administration has been trying to remove all such protections…
…and, what's even more, it was a 6-3 decision with Chief Justice Roberts siding with the majority as did Neil Gorsuch, who authored the opinion. Neil Gorsuch was a Trump appointee, remember. And the working premise was that a Trump appointee would be lockstep-loyal to Trump and to right-wing causes. Donald has to be seething, especially with the pending SCOTUS decision about whether he has to turn over his tax records.
Has there been a presidential tweet yet calling Gorsuch a back-stabbing traitor? Trump is totally transactional. If he does something for you, you owe him absolute fealty.
Okay. That's all the news I'm going to look at for a while. A script awaits.