The Senate just confirmed a Trump judge whose record “does not acknowledge LGBT people as having a right to exist”
, Kacsmaryk decried the Equality Act as punishing those who “exercise their millennia-old religious belief that marriage and sexual relations are reserved to the union of one man and one woman,” and described the fight for LGBTQ rights as part of a broader “Sexual Revolution” that “sought public affirmation of the lie that the human person is an autonomous blob of Silly Putty unconstrained by nature or biology.
And Kacsmaryk's record on reproductive rights isn't any better. Kacsmaryk, who previously served as the deputy counsel for the Christian advocacy group First Liberty Institute, opposed the contraceptive mandate in the Affordable Care Act and wrote an amicus brief opposing a Washington law that would require pharmacies to provide birth control. In his 2015 article, the then-lawyer described the passage of Roe v.
While Kacsmaryk is one of many far-right judges to be appointed by Trump and confirmed by the Senate, LGBTQ advocates and Democrats have singled his appointment out as being particularly harmful. “He is one of Trump’s most extreme nominees,” University of Richmond law professortold the Huffington Post, adding that litigants in cases involving LGBTQ and abortion rights “will have difficulty believing that he will fairly resolve their cases.
Judicial appointments like Kacsmaryk's have become one of the hallmarks of the Trump administration, as Trump and Senate Majority Leader
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