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Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia

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Gorsuch: The Usefulness of Legislative Intent

Gorsuch: The big problem for conservatives here is that they're generally all about the statutory text. They can't really work with that, so they have to start talking about what the legislators in the 1960s intended when passing the law,. But inquiring into legislative intent is something that conservatives claim they hate to do. "It's clearly aimed right at Alito's head," he says of his fellow conservative justice.

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