Part 13 of 13 -- the last one on Bostock, baby ! Update: Richard A. Epstein said about 7 months ago on Law Talk with John Yoo (Feb 2026) in the first 20 minutes of the Feb 2026 episode that there is evidence Gorsuch may have changed his mind on Bostock. Well, it's plausible and if so, it's related to the stuff we're saying here.
We're using the slip opinion again. See below for a link. Why the Court's majority is wrong in Bostock v. Clayton County Georgia (2020) (part 12 in a series) about the faulty assumption that unexamined and unexplained transgenderism premises about sex and gender are properly included under "sex discrimination" language in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act --This continues to be a real hoot.
Part 13 of 13: We continue our in-depth examination of sex, gender, and separation of powers in the US Supreme Court decision Bostock v. Clayton County, GA 590 U.S. 644 (2020): the Republican dispute, how to understand it, and what to do about it.
We continue with Justice Kavanaugh's strong dissent (although there are a couple of issues, one kinda tacky, the other a bit more serious) grounded in the moral arc of separation of powers: to protect individual liberty. Justice Kavanaugh rightly concludes that the Court threatened individual liberty under the guise of protecting it -- a serious charge indeed -- and one I think is probably correct.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/17-1618_hfci.pdf
This episode was filmed Monday evening 12 October 2026 years after Jesus in the spa in the backyard of my long-time (nearly a quarter of a century) common-sense Epistemology mentor the late great Dr. Doug Geivett (PhD, USC under Dallas Willard). Doug's pen name was R. Douglas Geivett, and he specialized in commonsense religious epistemology and Christian apologetics. Dr. Geivett was a student himself of the famous late-great Republican professor, the late-great common-sense epistemologist Dallas Willard of USC's Philosophy Department. We miss Doug greatly. I continue to talk about him and his impact on so many people like myself, and why it's so important to have a common sense epistemology mentor like Doug was to me.
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