SCOTUS STICKS IT TO WORKERS | Is #GorsuchStyle Getting Better? | How Discriminatory Laws Impact Mental Health
May 25, 2018
THE NAIL IN THE COFFIN
|In The Washington Post, Jena McGregor explains the importance and expected impact of the Supreme Court ruling on forced arbitration on the nearly 60 million Americans subject to such agreements. She writes, “The court’s decision this week means employees who sign those agreements must fight alleged violations individually, rather than as a group. The ruling was in response to three consolidated cases about wage issues, but comes amid increasing claims of sexual harassment during the #MeToo era.”
PICK ON SOMEBODY YOUR OWN SIZE
|Once again the Supreme Court sticks it to workers, notes the Editorial Board for The New York Times. The Ed Board says this week’s SCOTUS decision in Epic Systems v. Lewis serves as a clear demonstration of how different our country will become with JUSTICE GORSUCH at One First as opposed to MERRICK GARLAND. “Had Judge Garland been on the bench, the odds are good that Monday’s ruling would have gone the other way. But he isn’t, and with a Republican majority in the Senate unburdened by the judicial filibuster, the court is poised to become only more conservative. Unless, that is, voters who care about things like workers’ rights show up in November and return the Senate to Democratic control.”
A BETTER EDITOR
|We all remember how JUSTICE GORSUCH’S writing style was subject to so much scrutiny that it got its own hashtag — #GorsuchStyle — for the very purpose of dunking on the newbie justice’s ability to write. But Tony Mauro with The National Law Journal says Gorsuch’s opinion in the Epic ruling reveals a deviation from his classic #style with “fewer rough edges” than we’ve seen in some of his past writings.
MORE CAKE, LESS MENTAL DISTRESS
|Julia Raifman and Sandro Galea write in The Hill about a new study that indicates state laws allowing the denial of services to same-sex couples are associated with a 46 percent increase in mental distress among gay, lesbian and bisexual adults. They explain, “The study sheds light on how the denial of services to same-sex couples — such as decorating a wedding cake, in the case currently before the Supreme Court — can harm health.”
PODCAST DU JOUR
|On the latest episode of The Heritage Foundation’s SCOTUS 101, Elizabeth Slattery and Tiffany Bates break down the high court’s arbitration decision and the dissent of JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG. They’re also joined by KANNON SHANMUGAM and they bring us a little Memorial Day-centric Supreme Court trivia ahead of the long weekend.