This is urgent. Trump’s extremist, anti-LGBTQ nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Stuart Kyle Duncan, could be confirmed as soon as Wednesday.
Please use this quick form to tell your Senator to vote NO on his confirmation!
Duncan has built his career on undermining fairness and equality. Time and time again he defended corporations and lawmakers who wanted to discriminate. His record is appalling:
• defended Louisiana against a challenge to the state’s ban on same-sex marriage;
• defended the state against a challenge to its refusal to recognize same-sex marriages from other jurisdictions;
• defended the state of Alabama against a challenge from a lesbian mother whose parental rights were stripped away by the state;
• represented the state of Louisiana when it refused to issue a birth certificate to a same-sex couple after they adopted a child; 9 and
• organized an amicus brief filed by 15 states opposing the freedom to marry in Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark marriage equality case.
Duncan also has an anti-transgender record. He chose to represent North Carolina legislators Phil Berger and Tim Moore (the architects of the House Bill 2 which restricted transgender people’s ability to access public restrooms) in a lawsuit against the Department of Justice.
Tell your Senator to vote NO on Duncan!
P.S. For a complete picture of his atrocious record please read the letter we submitted to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary with Lambda Legal in collaboration with 39 equality organizations.
