US: Senate Judiciary Republicans Continue Approving Trump’s Anti-LGBT Agenda
On 9th November, the US Senate Judiciary Committee voted along party lines to move forward with the nomination of Gregory Katsas to the U.S. Federal Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, which is often described as the second most powerful court in the country behind the U.S. Supreme Court. 68 EILE Magazine
Gregory Katsas is currently the Deputy White House Counsel for the Trump Administration – which has routinely attacked the LGBT community, all people living with HIV, and overall civil rights in America. Non-Profit legal LGBT advocate organisation, Lambda Legal, has brought together 20 additional national, state, and local LGBT groups urging members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to stop this nomination. These groups include
GLAAD, The Trevor Project, and the Transgender Law Center. Part of their letter reads: “While his recent antiLGBT legal work has been prolific, Mr. Katsas is not new to opposing LGBT rights. While he worked at the Justice Department, Mr. Katsas defended the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (“DOMA”) that defined marriage for federal purposes as excluding samesex couples, and between 2004 and 2006, he served as counsel in two different cases attempting to uphold