to the Supreme Court, nothing that they could do about it, because, according to them, Congress had not made sufficent provision for redress . So, what reason would there be for an employer who is already unscrupulous enough to discriminate by gender to not do so? As far as I can tell, none. With the Ledbetter Act, however, they can now be sued for violating the law. In short, there is now a reason for them not to discriminate. Senator Rubio, am I going too fast for you? Of course, Rubio likely knows this full well. The whole "trial lawyers" attack is now a conservative standard. People hate lawyers. Make them hate trial lawyers even more, because trial lawyers contribute to Democrats. Why? Because Democrats side with ordinary people who, when screwed by wealthy people hiding behind corporate shields, have only one way to get redress, which is to sue them. Which, as a by-product, profits trial lawyers. So, instead of defending the fact that conservatives are really trying to protect wealthy people from any responsibility or liability for intentionally harming the public in any number of ways, instead pretend that its all about scummy trial lawyers . Please leave a comment in the text box below. I have loosened up the spam nonsense as much as I can while trying to leave the comments reasonably flexible. HTML is allowed ; use either the &lt;blockquote&gt; or the &lt;bq&gt; tags to indicate quoted material. Links (under 10 per comment) and images