President Biden’s government retracted a last-minute memo from the former on Friday President Trump
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Greg Friel, the acting chief of the Justice Department’s civil rights division, released a memo on Friday repealing a Trump administration directive in response to the June 2020 Supreme Court ruling in Bostock v Clayton County. The judges ruled in a 6-3 decision that the country’s laws on sex discrimination in the workplace also apply to discrimination against LGBTQ individuals.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the 23-page Trump Justice Department memo last Sunday said the court’s ruling should not extend to areas where gender-based policies towards bathrooms and sports teams are relevant. The memo also indicated that employers could cite religious beliefs as a justification for discrimination against LGBTQ workers.
But first, Friday’s move reported by Politico, retracted the Trump administration’s memo, with Friel claiming the directive violated a Wednesday executive command of Biden which required the federal government to prevent any form of discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation.
“I have determined that this memorandum is in many ways against the EO,” Friel wrote in his Friday guideline to colleagues in the civil rights department, Politico said. “I intend to consult with department management to issue revised guidelines that are consistent with the policies outlined in the EO. As part of that process, we will seek input from departmental experts.”
Biden’s executive order, one of several actions taken on his first day of work, is calling on federal government agencies to review current policies against sex discrimination to ensure that they ban discrimination against members of the LGBTQ community.
“Every person must be treated with respect and dignity and be able to live without fear, no matter who they are or who they love, ”the order states. “Adults must be able to support themselves and pursue a vocation, knowing that they will not be fired, demoted, or abused because of who they go home to or because their clothing does not conform to sex-based stereotypes.”
The order adds that: “All persons are to be treated equally by law, regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation.”
Last Sunday’s memo from former Acting Assistant Attorney General John Daukas, made public a day before Trump left office, sided with Justice Samuel Alito
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“We have to hesitate to apply Bostock’s reasoning to different texts adopted at different times and in different contexts,” wrote Daukas.
Unlike racial discrimination, the Supreme Court has never ruled that a religious employer’s decision not to employ homosexual or transgender people ‘is contrary to profound and generally accepted views of basic justice’ or that the government has a ‘compelling’ interest in eradicating such behavior, ”added the memo, the Journal said.