Kacsmaryk is the latest in a series of judicial nominations to elicit alarm from LGBTQ and civil rights advocates over what they consider anti-LGBTQ track records. - NBCOUT
, Mike Davis, founder and president of the Article III Project, an organization supporting Trump’s nominees, slammed the criticism against Kacsmaryk as “left-wing fear-mongering.” Davis said the criticism is “unfounded” and “unfairly conflates legal advocacy with bigotry, and actually demonstrates religious bigotry toward Christians and other people of faith who wish to speak in the public square.”On a phone call with reporters Tuesday, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.
During his time at the First Liberty Institute, Kacsmaryk opposed the extension of anti-discrimination protections to LGBTQ people not only in health care, but also in legislation such as the Workplace Innovation and Opportunity Act, the Homeless Youth and Trafficking Prevention Act and the Violence Against Women Act of 2013 reauthorization bill, Alliance for Justice maintains.
Rep. Joseph Kennedy III, D-Mass., said the nomination of Kacsmaryk is part of Trump’s “full scale war against transgender Americans,” citing the administration’s rollback of transgender-inclusive policies in the military, public schools and“This has nothing to do with politics and gets to the very core of what our judicial system is supposed to stand for,” Kennedy said on Tuesday’s press call. “He has no place in our judicial system.
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