Episode description

Alison, Rebecca, and Liz discuss the pending Post Office case—Groff v. DeJoy—another high-stakes case in which the Supreme Court considers how much hardship a business must bear to accommodate the religious practices of employees. They explain how the case threatens to disrupt decades of case law interpreting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and what the oral arguments may have signaled about the potential outcome. 

Background

• SCOTUS Blog Page

• Oral arguments transcript

• Freedom From Religion Foundation’s amicus brief

• Center for Inquiry and American Atheists’ amicus brief

• SCOTUS Blog - “Justices look for common ground in postal worker’s religious liberty case”

• Vox - “The Supreme Court is unlikely to put the Christian Right in charge of your workplace — at least not yet”

• Time - “The Post Office Made a Christian Employee Work on Sundays. Now He's at the Supreme Court”

• New York Times - “Supreme Court Weighs Clash of Postal Worker’s Sabbath and Sunday Deliveries”

Cases

• Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Hardison (1977)

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