Harris Funeral Homes for six years until she told her boss she was going to live and identify as a woman. When harris homes responded by firing her, it discriminated against her because of her sex for three reasons. First, firing her for failing to conform to explicitly stated stereotypes about how men and women should behave. It discriminated against her in the same way as Price Waterhouse discriminated against anne hopkins for failing to walk and talk more feminine. It cannot be that anne hopkins would lose her case on the same facts. Second, harris fired her for identifying as a woman only because she was assigned male sex at birth. In doing so, they fired her for contravening a sex specific expectation that applies only to people assigned male sex at birth. Namely, that they live and identify as a man for their entire lives. That is disparate treatment on the basis of sex. Third, harris homes fired her for, and its owner words changing her sex. , that is discrimination in the same
Chairman the committee will come to order. The department of health and Human Services, everybody is sitting six feet apart. All Witnesses Today are participating in person. We thank you for that. Participatingare by videoconference. I would like to say a word about masks. The office of attending physicians advised us we may remove the mask and talk to the microphone as long as we are six feet apart. Msak imask isy off. When i am walking the senate floor, i am wearing a mask. Simple clothsd, help from transmitting it to others. Unfortunately this practice has become part of the political debate that says if you are forced from you do not wear a mask, if you are against trump you do. I suggested the president occasionally wear a mask even though, in most cases, it is not necessary for him to do so. The president has plenty of admirers. They would follow his lead. End this help an political debate. The stakes are too high about this to continue. Masksrs and staff wear because we do not w
Minutes of this american Artifacts Program by going to cspan. Org and searching stonewall riots. Right now we go live to capitol hill for a Senate Foreign relations hearing on the Coronavirus Response and what the u. S. Is doing to prepare for future Global Pandemics. The hearing will focus on senate bill 3829 with senator murphy and i have introduced. Its written on paper, not on stone, which well talk about a little bit in the future here. This is an important endeavor that this committee is going to take up, indeed. Probably one of the weightiest matters that well deal with as we attempt to create a new shield to prevent a covid virus type attack be from happening again. The covid19 Global Pandemic has reaffirmed what weve long known and that is Infectious Diseases, particularly those of viral nature, do not respect borders. Theyre a threat anywhere, its a threat everywhere. Weve been right here to focus on our domestic response to this pandemic, but we ignore the spread overseas at
Two hours. This hearing will come to order. Been aring room has configured to maintain the recommended sixfoot social distancing between senators, and other individuals in the room necessary to operate kept aring, which we have it a minimum. This will be a hybrid hearing. Be present andll witnesses are hear in person and coming in by videoconference. Once you startne slight there will be a display before you are on the screen if you are coming in remotely. To minimize background noise button until your time to speak. If there is any Technology Issue senatormove to the next until it is resolved. I remind all senators and itnesses that the five machine clock still applies. Should all have a box on your those are operating remotely that is labeled clock remaining. Ime at 30 seconds i will try to the gavelo gently tap to remind senators their time is expiring. Speaking order process support brown and you i agreed to go but seniority. E welcome our federal housing regulators the honorable b
We will hear arguments first this morning case 189526 mcgirt versus oklahoma. Mr. Chief justice and may i please the court, this case is resolved by the fundamental proposition that decisions about sovereign rights are for congress to make an Congress Makes those decisions by the text. Learly and the decision must be reversed because the text makes clear Congress Never terminated the reservation and never transferred federal criminal jurisdiction to oklahoma. I have four basic points to make this morning. First, there was a reservation. The relevant treaties preserve the land to solemnly goin guarad to govern. The text of the treaties and statutes expressly identified the land of the reservation. Nothing more was needed. Second, congress did not establish, disestablish the reservation. In fact they considered a disestablishment and rejected it and initially sought the section yet instead only for the allotment. Then when congressional inaction would have dissolved, congress preserved t