By Eli Rosenberg Eli Rosenberg General assignment reporter covering national and breaking news Email Bio Follow March 5 at 10:33 PM The Senate voted Tuesday to confirm a 37-year-old Washington lawyer whose nomination drew vociferous opposition from LGBTQ and some civil rights groups, to a lifetime appointment on a federal appeals court.
Republicans just advanced the judicial nomination of 36 year-old Allison Jones Rushing for the 4th Circuit . She has practiced law for just 9 years, only tried 4 cases to verdict or judgment in her career , and isn’t even a member of the NC bar.“I want to thank my Senate colleagues for voting to confirm Allison Jones Rushing to be a U.S. Circuit Court Judge for the Fourth Circuit,” Sen. Thom Tillis, of North Carolina, said in a statement.
In a letter sent to senators in October, the coalition described Rushing, who clerked for justices Clarence Thomas and Neil M. Gorsuch, as an “ideological extremist,” — the end result of what the group said was an effort to install a far-right judge in the fourth circuit. It noted an internship Rushing had at the Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian legal nonprofit that is designated as an anti-LGBTQ hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
In a response send to The Washington Post, the ADF said that the SPLC had been “discredited for decades by investigative journalists, charity watchdogs, and commentators as activist, partisan, and unreliable,” but it did not dispute the specifics of the group’s characterization.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
MAGA
Super fantastic
Whoopty doo 😴
GOP also confirmed a guy who believes DEATH PENALTY should be 'liberally applied' to minors So all those LIES GOP just spent weeks yapping about Dems wanting to kill 👶 GOP just appointed a guy to Fed judge who literally wants to systematically kill black/brown CHILDREN/TEENS
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Mairi06104455 When they prove conspiracy, we should fight have every single one of his appointments invalidated. Then we should prosecute senatemajldr for aiding and abetting. resist more
White supremicists nazi kkk doctrine judge. Any judge who hates any human group based on sex gender especially anyone born human is an anti human a souless stain claiming to enforce the Constitution but in fact is enforcing Mercer and Koch Nazi hate All humans are equal
Elections have consequences.
If anyone had any lingering doubt that the USA is actually a 3rd world shit hole, here we are....
Just maybe after trump and his swamprats go to jail WE THE PEOPLE CAN OVER TURN ALL THE THINGS THAT HES DONE TO OUR COUNTRY INCLUDING ALL THE JUDGES HES APPOINTED..SINCE HE AN ILLEGAL PRESIDENT
May god have no mercy on her soul
Your main source for reporting (essentially) was the Southern Poverty Law Center Wow...you guys are really hurting after the Covington thing, eh?
Oh the horror
Acceptance of all n ilk can only lead to diverse harmony social model
God is good!
Luv me some trump
One big reason why GOP keeps silent about trump. They are packing the courts with narrow- minded *practitioners* of the law.
par for the course. trumpeffect
Great news
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WHAT THE FK? Please give MORE INFO. What committee? Who was on the committee Since you wrote it was Democrats that did this misdeed what and why did this? Please don't shape shift the whole facts.Sometimes the WP makes me want to spit WHEN U'al don't give very pertinent info.
That's OK. We'll throw the Republicans out of the Senate in 2020, just like we did with the House in 2018.
Hate speech ≠ offensive speech. Hate speech doesn't exist. Nothing that can be considered illegal. Now, that doesn't mean you should say offensive things but you get my point.
No she won’t. When Chump is proven to be a traitor I expect every appointment made by his regime to be challenged.
Thank regressive racist, sexist, homophobic Republicans
Dems put a KKK guy on the court / he served for life
And the Congress won’t condemn anti-Semitism or strip a hateful member of a powerful committee from that position. Seems like there’s hate all around these days. ☹️
She's not the first and won't be the last of her kind that Republicans put on the bench.
The 51 vote majority is just awful for our courts. We are getting too many judges that are too far from the mainstream. If judges required 60 votes then nominees would have to be middle of the road to pass and the country would have more confidence in our courts.
She can be impeached. I have no doubt that will eventually occur.
Start sending her cheeseburgers?!
Continuing the regression of the United States. Somehow I thought the US Constitution applied to all citizens, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation.
Where’s the “I hate” button on Twitter ?
Ain't that lovely. . .
The SPLC, a known far left organization that deems people and businesses to be a 'hate group' on little to no proof, says she place she interned at is an 'anti-LGBTQ hate group'? Is this a joke? Is this what passes as 'news' these days?
there is no bottom
What would we do without Washington Post to fear monger all of the time? Why don't you try not publishing 'news' stories for a while so we can all find out.
This is why the evangelicals stay with Trump. Full stop.
Opposing immorality should be mandatory for all judges.
We could blame trump for stacking the courts but he's not nearly clever enough to come up with that. McConnell and his lackeys want to make the judiciary as psychotically right-wing as possible with reverberations echoing for decades.
Based
Not everyone in this country is pro homosexual and that’s their right to feel that way even if it’s not the same way you feel.
LOL....but Dems have the green deal
Disgusting.
It's one thing to make a living off that kind of hate. But to do it for free... That's evil. America
Your gender bending promotion is getting old. sad on you all day everyday.
Why needles of distortion doors don’t open and naw we app
DISGUSTING. BlindHate
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