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PoliticsSenate confirms Beth Robinson, the first out lesbian U.S. circuit court judge
Republicans opposed her appointment, grilling her in a hearing with questions like “How many biological sexes do you believe there are?”
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CommentaryRob Portman is considered pro-LGBTQ. But he’s undercut our rights as much as he supported them.
The Senator is known for bucking the Republican Party to favor marriage equality. But he’s also voted in favor of Trump and his anti-LGBTQ advocates.
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News (USA)Senate confirms Trump appointee to federal court who defended anti-LGBTQ laws for years
Stephen Schwartz defended North Carolina’s H.B.2 discrimination law & fought against trans student Gavin Grimm in court. Now he’s going to be a federal judge.
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CommentaryThe damage from the Trump presidency won’t be easy for Biden to undo. He’s not done either.
45 has already checked out of the job, but with last-minute regulation changes to a raft of anti-LGBTQ appointees, the Trump administration will continue to cast a long shadow over Biden’s goals.
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LifeThe first openly gay federal judge passed away at 72
Deborah Batts was a prosecutor and a law professor before Bill Clinton appointed her to the federal judiciary.
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PoliticsOne of Trump’s bigoted, anti-LGBTQ employees will now sit on the federal bench
At age 40, new Second Circuit Judge Steven Menashi probably has at least a quarter century ahead in which he can poison the law against us.
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CommentaryOne of Trump’s anti-LGBTQ judges issues a dissent best described as ‘whackdoodle’
By discarding centuries of legal precedent to protect President Trump, she showed how judicial anti-LGBTQ bias is part of a larger disease in the Trump Administration.
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News (USA)Trump didn’t give himself enough credit in the SOTU for his one radical success
The biggest threat to the safety and future of America – the state of our union – isn’t North Korea, s–thole countries, or Russia.
