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Earlier this month, a federal court of appeals heard oral arguments in Jane Roe v. United States et. al., a case filed by a former judicial branch employee who was sexually harassed by her supervisor and retaliated against when she came forward.
As a judiciary employee, Jane Roe is exempt from Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the traditional avenue for bringing a workplace sexual harassment lawsuit.
My non-profit organization, the Purple Campaign, filed an amicus brief in the case urging the court to instead recognize Jane Roe’s right to a harassment-free workplace under the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the U.S. Constitution. As I’ve worked on the case, something Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told me two years ago has been in the back of my mind.
In February 2020, I went to the Library of Congress to meet Justice Ginsburg. I was there because she had recently received the Berggruen Prize, given annually to a “thinker whose ideas are shaping human self-understanding to advance humankind” with a one-million-dollar grant. The Justice decided to divide the money among organizations advancing causes in line with the prize’s mission, and designated the Purple Campaign to receive a portion of the award.
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