Supreme Court sides with woman 'passed over because she is not gay'

The has sided with a straight woman who claims she was passed over for positions that went to her gay colleagues.

Marlean Ames said she was the victim of bias in an agency overseeing 's youth correctional facilities, with her case being decided in a rare unanimous ruling.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said a longstanding ruling used in almost half the nation's federal circuits that forced people who are not white, male or gay to meet a higher bar to prove workplace discrimination was unconstitutional.

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