The judges on President Trump's shortlist to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg could undo key civil rights victories she backed, LGBTQ and civil rights advocates warn. - NBCOUT
Trump said Tuesday that he will announce his Supreme Court nominee on Saturday. In an interview with Fox News, he said he was “down to five” candidates, whom he did not name, but multiple sources close to the process told NBC News that there are currently two front-runners: Judges Amy Coney Barrett and Barbara Lagoa.
Barrett, 48, was appointed by Trump in 2017 to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and has been on his . Prior to her appointment, Barrett was a law professor at her alma mater, Notre Dame, and clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia.as a “well-qualified, impressive, experienced” judge “who will apply the rule of law fairly.”LGBTQ advocates, however, have been sounding the alarm about Barrett since her 2017 nomination. That October, over two dozen LGBTQ organizationsto the Senate Judiciary Committee opposing her nomination.
“It is far from clear how Professor Barrett, sitting as a federal judge, would reconcile her publicly avowed views about ‘marriage and family founded on the indissoluble commitment of a man and a woman’ with the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which recognized the constitutional right to marriage equality; or her views about ‘the significance of sexual difference and the complementarity of men and women’ with the Supreme Court’s decision in Price Waterhouse v.
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