Stephen L. Carter, Columnist

Claiming 'Reverse Discrimination' Could Get Easier

Supreme Court justices appear likely to side with a straight woman who alleges she was discriminated against at work because of her sexual orientation.

March 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM UTC

By Stephen L. Carter

Stephen L. Carter is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, a professor of law at Yale University and author of “Invisible: The Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster.”

A shift in the scales of justice?
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I suspect that “reverse discrimination” plaintiffs are in for a big win in the US Supreme Court.

If Wednesday’s oral arguments in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services are any indication, the justices are poised to sweep away the procedural barriers that several federal courts have erected in the path of members of majority groups who claim to have been discriminated against by their employers.