Donald Trump’s Supreme Court shortlist is stacked with anti-LGBTQ extremists

Donald Trump has released a new list of potential Supreme Court nominees that includes many anti-LGBTQ judges, lawyers, and politicians.

If Trump wins another term this fall, he would have four more years to nominate the people on this list – or others like them – to lifetime seats on the Supreme Court, where they would have a chance to roll back major LGBTQ victories like marriage equality and anti-discrimination laws.

Related: Trump’s record on LGBTQ rights has been vile from the moment he took office. We kept a list.

“The Trump Administration released a new list of dangerous, ultra-conservative ideologues as potential nominees for the highest court in the land,” said Sharon McGowan of the LGBTQ legal organization Lambda Legal. “This list is teeming with individuals who have alarming anti-LGBTQ and anti-civil rights records, which should be disqualifying for any judicial nominee, let alone a nominee for the Supreme Court.”

In a list published on the White House website, Trump says that he’s considering Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX), John Hawley (R-MO), Tom Cotton (R-AR) for lifetime appointments to the Supreme Court. Cruz and Cotton have anti-LGBTQ voting records in the Senate, getting a score of “0” on HRC’s Congressional Scorecard for the past several years (Hawley assumed office in 2019 and isn’t on the scorecard yet).

In 2015, when the Supreme Court legalized marriage equality in all 50 states in its Obergefell v. Hodges decision, Cruz said that day was “among the darkest hours of our nation” and accused the Supreme Court justices of…

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