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Section 7

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Section 7
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Bostock v. Clayton County, 590 U.S. 644 (2020)
Effective Date
2020-06-15
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https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/4760997/bostock-v-clayton-county/ ↗

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The majority opinion deflects that critique by saying that courts should base their interpretation of statutes on the text as written, not on the legislators' subjective intentions. Ante , at 1764 - 1765, 1766 - 1770. Of course that is true. No one disagrees. It is "the provisions of our laws rather than the principal concerns of our legislators by which we are governed." Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc. , 523 U.S. 75, 79, 118 S.Ct. 998, 140 L.Ed.2d 201 (1998).