Despite the warnings numerous LGBT organizations made about Joan Larsen's views on civil rights, the Trump nominee will now sit on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit.
By Ariel Sobel
With a 60-38 Vote, Trump's nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals, Joan Larsen, has been confirmed
to the lifelong position. Lambda Legal and the National LGBT Bar
Association were among the 27 LGBT rights groups who sent a letter to
the Judiciary Committee protesting Larsen's confirmation.
The letter
argued that Larsen was unfit to be a U.S. Circuit judge because her
“views on civil rights issues are fundamentally at odds with the notion
that LGBT people are entitled to equality, liberty, justice and dignity
under the law.”
While serving in Michigan's Supreme Court, Larsen has had a
record of voting against hearing custody cases that dealt with same-sex
parents. In speeches to the Federalist Society, she criticized the Obama
administration for not defending the antigay Defence of Marriage Act.
She has also argued for a law that made sodomy illegal in Texas; she wrote in 2004 that she disagreed with the Supreme Court's decision to strike it down.
Larsen was previously on Donald Trump's shortlist for the
Supreme Court. At the time, he stated he was looking for justices who
would overturn Roe v. Wade.
Instead, she will serve in U.S. Court of Appeals, which is one court level below.
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Source: The Advocate
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