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Jul 2020
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17: Dahlia Lithwick on SCOTUS 2019-20 Te...

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Al and Dahlia discuss the Court's top decisions, including Bostock, which held that federal law prohibits employment discrimination agains LGBT workers, and whether Alito's dissent in that case was "very gay."

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