Bloomberg Law
Nov. 9, 2018, 2:48 PM UTCUpdated: Nov. 14, 2018, 3:36 PM UTC

Trump LGBT Rift Should Be Solved by Court, Congress: EEOC Leaders (Corrected)

Chris Opfer
Chris Opfer
Reporter/Editor

The U.S. Supreme Court or Congress should eventually resolve a dispute inside the Trump administration over discrimination protections for LGBT workers, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Acting Chairwoman Victoria Lipnic (R) and Commissioner Chai Feldblum (D) told Bloomberg Law Nov. 8.

“I think this is going to be a race between the Supreme Court and Congress as to who first extends protections to LGBT people,” Feldblum said. “I used to think that Congress was going to be way behind the Supreme Court. Now, the way it looks is they might be on the track at literally the same time.”

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