Supreme Court sides with straight woman in decision that makes it easier to win ‘reverse discrimination’ suits

By John Fritze and Devan Cole, CNN

(CNN) — The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with a straight woman in Ohio who filed a “reverse discrimination” lawsuit against her employer when her gay boss declined to promote her. The ruling will make it easier to win such suits in some parts of the country.

Despite the politically divisive debate playing out over workplace diversity efforts – a fight that has been fueled by President Donald Trump – a unanimous coalition of conservative and liberal justices signed onto that decision. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, a member of the court’s liberal wing, wrote the opinion for the court .

The woman at the center of the suit, Marlean Ames, is challenging a requirement applied in five appeals courts that when members of a “majority” group raise dis