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Anti-LGBTQ Senatorial Candidate Derailed by Accusations of Sexual Abuse
Roy Moore, a former Alabama Supreme Court judge with very open animosity towards the LGBTQ community who is now running as the Republican nominee to fill Jeff Sessions’ vacant Senate seat, has been accused of pursuing sexual relationships with teenage girls during his time in private practice in Alabama. An Alabama woman went public with [...]
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Sessions Sends DOJ Lawyer to Aid in Transgender Murder Prosecution
Attorney General Jeff Sessions hasn’t exactly been friendly to the LGBTQ community lately. His Department of Justice has filed briefs in support of anti-LGBTQ discrimination in two different cases in the past month and a half. He authored a memo overturning Obama-era interpretations of Title VII, stating definitively that this provision of the 1964 Civil [...]
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BREAKING: Jeff Sessions Rescinds Obama-Era Government Policy That Protects Transgender Workers From Discrimination
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has rescinded an Obama-era government policy that stated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects transgender people in the workplace from discrimination. In 2014 then-Attorney General Eric Holder issued a memo stating: “I have determined that the best reading of Title VII’s prohibition of sex discrimination is that it encompasses [...]
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Sessions’ Department Of Justice Argues In Favor Of Employment Discrimination Against LGBTQ People… Again
First the cake shop, now this. The Trump Department Of Justice under Attorney General Jeff Sessions (who has a notably checkered past with regard to LGBTQ rights) recently stepped into Zarda v. Altitude Express, a case in which a New York skydiving instructor is suing his former employer for firing him when the employer found [...]
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Locals protest AG Sessions’ Richmond visit, point to checkered past with civil rights and Russia
About 60 protesters showed up in Downtown Richmond this morning to protest an appearance by US Attorney General Jeff Sessions. A multitude of groups representing a range of issues offered different, unconnected demonstrations that included chants and speeches hoping to amplify their concerns during the US AG’s visit. Among those in the crowd was the [...]
