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Unanimous. How could it possibly have gone the other way? And I've wondered before how we got in this situation to begin with. If you are allegedly discriminated against illegally, you should have the same methods at your disposal to appeal, regardless of your characteristics. She may still lose her case when it goes back down. At least the level of proof required has been eased.

The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with a straight woman who claimed she faced bias in the workplace after she was passed over for positions that went to gay colleagues. The decision will make it easier for people who are White, male or not gay to prove job discrimination claims.

The justices unanimously struck down a standard, used in nearly half of the nation’s federal circuits, that required members of groups that historically have not faced discrimination to meet a higher bar to prove workplace bias than members of minority groups.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the only Black woman on the high court, wrote the opinion that sided with Marlean Ames, an Ohio state government employee who argued it was unconstitutional to have different standards for different groups of people.

“Congress left no room for courts to impose special requirements on majority-group plaintiffs alone,” Jackson wrote in the ruling, portions of which she read from the bench.