[Keilar:] A landmark ruling today for the LGBTQ community, the Supreme Court declaring the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects gay, lesbian and transgender employees from workplace discrimination. The Supreme Court now says employers cannot fire their workers for being gay or transgender. Irin Carmon is a CNN Contributor, also co-author of the book, Notorious RGB RBG, pardon me for that. We had a typo there and I just read the prompter. Irin, thanks for joining us. Two of the court's conservatives joined the four liberals in this decision. So tell us more about this significant ruling.
[Irin Carmon, Cnn Contributor:] Brianna, good afternoon. Today, LGBTQ activists have so much to be thankful for, but not just that. The larger argument here that was being made that all of these movements are intertwined, that LBGTQ rights can be found in existing civil rights legislation, which in turn was a provision of women's rights, discrimination on the basis of sex, which built on racial equality in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the argument that all of these rights are intertwined, that the movements all have to work together to make the legal arguments, has been validated by no less than two Republican appointees to the Supreme Court in an unequivocal clear decision today. This is even better than many advocates were expecting. We had Justice Neil Gorsuch, obviously, President Trump's first appointee, and Chief Justice Roberts, both joining an opinion authored by Gorsuch that made a very strong argument that you cannot discriminate on the basis of sex and specifically that that sex provision applies to LGBTQ individuals in a way that the Supreme Court has never previously recognized. Now, yesterday, 15,000 people marched in Brooklyn and said that black trans lives mattered. The woman who brought the case in the LGBTQ community, the trans rights aspect of this, Amy Stevens, did not live to see this day. But millions of people in this country will now see a bipartisan, cross ideological coalition saying that LGBTQ individuals are included in existing civil rights law and the impact is enormous.
[Keilar:] Yes. And it's so significant when you look at the breakdown on the court on this. Irin, thank you. President Trump calling them game changers in the fight against coronavirus, now, the FDA is sidelining them. The agency is ending the emergency use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine because the risks outweigh any known benefits. CNN's Senior Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen is joining me now. We have talked about this drug so much. This was an emergency use authorization, right? So tell us why revoke it now?
[Elizabeth Cohen, Cnn Senior Medical Correspondent:] In some ways, you could ask the question, Brianna, why didn't they revoke a long time ago. This has been a long time incoming. Let's take a look at how at sort of the tick tock of how this all unfolded. So back in March, the FDA issued emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine to be used for certain COVID patients. And then in April, just a month later, the FDA itself and the NIH come out warning against its use. And then the month after that, two studies in very prestigious medical journals came out saying it was ineffective. One of those two, the larger of those two studies said not only does it not work but it increases the risk of cardiac arrest by more than two times. And then today here in June, the authorization is revoked. Now, it's saying and the FDA is now says it is unlikely to work and there are concerns that it could cause problems, including heart problems. Now, it's interesting, Brianna, because the FDA has also said look, at the time we gave the authorization back in March, we were going based on the evidence at hand. Every expert that I've spoken with, and these are people who study hydroxychloroquine in COVID, said there never really was any evidence that this drug worked. Basically, what we had was a president who was pushing it. Brianna?
[Keilar:] And there was evidence from the beginning, from the very beginning, that it caused problems. Elizabeth Cohen, thank you so much.