Trump celebrated the federal judges he’s nominated in a White House event today. Surprise: they’re varying degrees of anti-immigrant, anti-woman, anti-voting rights, and anti-LGBTQ. Here are just a handful of his worst nominees:
John Bush of the Sixth Circuit compared abortion rights to slavery. He’s also a blogger — his blog is full of conspiracy theories, including one of Trump’s favorites: that President Obama wasn’t born in the United States. npr.org/2017/07/20/538…
Kyle Duncan is a piece of work. He defended a voting law that a court ruled “targeted African Americans with almost surgical precision,” AND said the Supreme Court case that legalized same-sex marriage “raises a question about the legitimacy of the Court.” huffpost.com/entry/trump-co…
Mark Norris has a long history of bigotry. He pushed for legislation to invalidate same-sex marriage. He also equated refugees to terrorists and fear-mongered about ‘Sharia law’ in Tennessee. naacpldf.org/press-release/…
Jeff Brown has made a career out of getting extremely mad about things that don’t concern him. He suggested Texas should secede because gay marriage was legalized, and called court rulings against Trump’s Muslim ban “an attempted coup d’etat.” houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-t…
There are more Trump nominees still under consideration right now — like Steven Menashi, a White House lawyer who has a track record of supporting LGBTQ discrimination and undermining the rights of sexaul assault survivors. advocate.com/commentary/201…
