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Deborah Batts was a prosecutor and a law professor before Bill Clinton appointed her to the federal judiciary.

He also advocated for “conversion therapy” – a banned practice that uses techniques like electroshock therapy and social isolation to “turn gay people straight.”

“It is fundamentally unjust to abort a most promising military career solely because of a truthful confession of a sexual preference different from that of the majority,” he wrote in 1993.