🚨 #BREAKINGNEWS
@realDonaldTrump just released a new shortlist of potential Supreme Court nominees. It is FULL of dangerous anti-LGBTQ extremists and ideologues. lambdalegal.org/blog/20200909_…
Some highlights!
Judge Kyle Duncan, who wrote a disgusting opinion refusing to do the absolute bare minimum and refer to a trans litigant's chosen pronouns. lambdalegal.org/blog/20200323_…
Judge James Ho, who aggressively defended Texas’s ban on marriage equality. lambdalegal.org/news/dc_201712…
Judge Lawrence Van Dyke, who has a long history of working to diminish the civil rights of the LGBTQ community and was even deemed “not qualified” by the American Bar Association due to specific concerns about his ability to treat LGBTQ litigants fairly. lambdalegal.org/news/us_201912…
Paul Clement, who literally left his law firm when it decided it would no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) on behalf of the US House of Representatives. huffpost.com/entry/law-firm…
Ted Cruz, whose long troubling political history includes campaigning against marriage equality (among many other things). lambdalegal.org/blog/20141010_…
Noel Francisco, who represented the Trump administration in opposing rights for LGBTQ employees and also supported Jack Phillips in the Masterpiece Cakeshop #SCOTUS case.
Sen. Josh Hawley, who was not so happy about June's Bostock #SCOTUS decision confirming protections for #LGBTQ workers. politico.com/news/2020/06/1…
Judge Gregory Katsas, who has had a central role in the Trump administration's efforts around the trans military ban as well as outside the administration around litigation seeking to dismantle legal protections for LGBTQ people. lambdalegal.org/news/dc_201711…
BREAKING: Judge Sarah Pitlyk, unanimously rated "unqualified" by the American Bar Association.
Judge Allison Jones Rushing, who has ties to our best friends at the Alliance Defending Freedom.
(Just kidding, they are not our best friends. Also they blocked us so we won't tag them.) nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-ou…
And that's just half of them! You can see the rest here. thehill.com/homenews/admin…
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