The legislation comes amid a soaring number of book challenges — often centered on LGBTQ content — and efforts in a number of states to ban drag queen story readings.

The EEOC's new guidelines are a "radical interpretation" of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, one attorney general claimed.

"If he's not covered by the criminal law, he can't be impeached for violating it at all," the Supreme Court justice said during Thursday's arguments.

The justices seemed to focus more on hypothetical future cases rather than the case immediately before them.

The decision means he'll still need to pay damages in the libel case Carroll won against him.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce immediately challenged the agency's new ban, filing a lawsuit in the conservative 5th Circuit.