At a time when protests continue following the death of George Floyd at the hands of police officers in Minnesota, there is a heightened national focus on issues in the black community.
As a whole, black Americans are among the most loyal Democrats in the country. Indeed, some link Democratic policies to the interests of blacks. Last month, Joe Biden, the Democratic Party's 2020 presidential nominee went as far as telling black Americans, "'If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black."
A majority of the U.S. Supreme Court has found that a federal law preventing discrimination on the basis of biological sex also covers sexual orientation and gender identity even though it doesn't mention those characteristics.
On a 6-3 vote – including reputed conservatives Chief Justice John Roberts and associate justice Neil Gorsuch – the court found that the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 makes it illegal to fire an employee for being homosexual or transgender because "it is impossible to discriminate against a person for being homosexual or transgender without discriminating against that individual based on sex."
