‘They Ruled And We Can Live With Their Decision’: Trump Reacts To ‘Very Powerful’ Supreme Court Decision Protecting LGBTQ Workers

TOPLINE

President Trump on Monday said “we can live with” a Supreme Court decision providing protections for LGBTQ workers, calling the ruling “powerful,” despite his administration arguing against such protections.

KEY FACTS

Key Background

The administration has spent pride month rolling back Obama-era policies protecting LGBTQ individuals from discrimination. On Friday, it finalized a rule removing protections for LGBTQ people in health care. The following day, the Washington Post reported that the Department of Housing and Urban Development was eying a change to a rule requiring single-sex homeless shelters to accept transgender individuals based on their stated gender.

News Peg

Some commentators argued that the ruling may serve to destabilize the shaky coalition between Trump and his evangelical voters, based largely on the promise of conservative judges like Gorsuch delivering socially conservative rulings. “The whole point of the Federalist Society judicial project, the whole point of electing Trump to implement it, was to deliver Supreme Court victories to social conservatives,” tweeted National Review contributor and Arc Digital columnist Varad Mehta. “If they can’t deliver anything that basic, there’s no point for either. The damage is incalculable.” 

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30. Trump took another hit with his evangelical base on Monday when 30 evangelical Christian leaders published a book arguing that evangelical Trump voters should “take another look and ask, ‘Does this person measure up to biblical norms?’”