Donald Tmp's First Openly Gay Judicial Nomee Was Jt Approved By the Senate. Here's Why LGBT Groups Aren't Thrilled

Contents:

• BRA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE BE MASTER OF THE ROLLS
• DONALD TMP'S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDICIAL NOMEE WAS JT APPROVED BY THE SENATE. HERE'S WHY LGBT GROUPS AREN'T THRILLED
• WHERE ARE THE GAY JUDG?
• JUDICIAL CULTURE STILL TERS GAY AND LBIAN LAWYERS, SAY REARCHERS
• A SECRET AL BETWEEN JTIC JOHN ROBERTS AND ANTHONY KENNEDY ON GAY RIGHTS AND WHAT MEANS TODAY
• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
• SENATE NFIRMS TWO OPENLY GAY, BLACK JUDG TO FERAL BENCH
• GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• NOT THE ONN: MOSW BANS GAY PRI FOR NEXT 100 YEARS
• GAY SOCCER PLAYER JOSH CAVALLO TO JUDGE RUPL’S DRAG RACE DOWN UNR

BRA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDGE BE MASTER OF THE ROLLS

Only 14 out of 870 feral judghips are held by openly gay or lbian judg (cludg Robson), add, and there has never been an openly bisexual or transgenr judicial nomee. Sir Terence Etherton, Bra’s first openly gay senr judge, has been appoted master of the rolls, makg him head of the civil judiciary England and 64-year-old lawyer’s promotn was nfirmed by an announcement om Downg Street on Thursday morng. District Judge Julian Abele Cook 's a member of the Gay and Lbian Bar Associatn and has done pro bono for Lambda Legal, a nonprof LGBT legal aid group.

To provi an opportuny for judicial officers to meet and exchange views and to promote tn among s members and among the general public on legal and judicial issu related to the gay and lbian muny. To crease the visibily of lbian and gay judicial officers so as to serve as role mols for other lbian and gay people and to brg to the attentn of the general public the promence of the judicial officers.

DONALD TMP'S FIRST OPENLY GAY JUDICIAL NOMEE WAS JT APPROVED BY THE SENATE. HERE'S WHY LGBT GROUPS AREN'T THRILLED

To ordate the sharg of rmatn between lbian and gay judicial officers and others the gay muny or the general muny.

WHERE ARE THE GAY JUDG?

That the Articl of Inrporatn of “The Internatnal Associatn of Lbian and Gay Judg” be amend to specify that “The name of this rporatn is ‘The Internatnal Associatn of LGBT Judg’ and that the purpose of the rporatn be amend the Articl of Inrporatn to reflect the cln of “legal and judicial issu related to the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Communy” and. “The Uned Stat is more diverse than ever, yet our natn’s urts are pafully homogeno, ” said Eric Lh, director of Lambda Legal’s Fair Courts Project and the thor of the report.

JUDICIAL CULTURE STILL TERS GAY AND LBIAN LAWYERS, SAY REARCHERS

The 2015 US Supreme Court lg that legalized gay marriage was a cultural and legal landmark but not the end of the fight for equal rights. Still, a more diverse judiciary uld provi better odds for LGBTQ people fightg homophobic employers or simply tryg to change their genr inty on a driver’s license.

A SECRET AL BETWEEN JTIC JOHN ROBERTS AND ANTHONY KENNEDY ON GAY RIGHTS AND WHAT MEANS TODAY

The judiciary is failg to reflect the UK's gay and lbian muny, experts say, as rearch suggts is serly unr-reprented on the bench.

FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

Rearch by the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) law work Interlaw has found that judicial culture, the perceptn of hostily to gay judg and the isolated nature of the job are terrg gay and lbian lawyers om applyg for reers as study also suggts that gay and lbian lawyers fear that their private liv may be subject to addnal scty if they were to bee judg.

Although Nberger's report referred to creasg sexual diversy the judiciary, the Judicial Appotments Commissn (JAC) ‑ the official body rponsible for appotg judg ‑ has still not llected any data on the number of gay and lbian judg. In the 1970s, the then lord chancellor, Lord Hailsham, formally exclud gay and lbian lawyers om enterg the judiciary, by allowg only married people to be appoted to the practice was only end 1991, when the then lord chancellor, Lord Mackay, allowed unmarried people to bee judg.

SENATE NFIRMS TWO OPENLY GAY, BLACK JUDG TO FERAL BENCH

Court of appeal judge Sir Terence Etherton, high urt and ternatnal crimal urt judge Sir Adrian Fulford and circu judge Jeremy Richardson are among the few judg England and Wal known to be gay. "We have no ia how many gay and lbian judg there actually are, " said Daniel Wterfeldt, partner at law firm Simmons & Simmons and founr of Interlaw.

GAY RIGHTS VS. FREE SPEECHSUPREME COURT BACKS WEB DIGNER OPPOSED TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

Acrdg to the Texas judicial missn’s 2019 warng, Hensley referred gay upl who wanted her to pri over their marriage ceremony to other people who would officiate. The negotiatns those s, not prevly reported, offer a glimpse to tra-offs among jtic, monstrate the chief’s soft power of persuasn and show that the urt’s sentiment on gay rights issu n be both ght and evolvg.

Meanwhile, Kennedy would vote for the urt to hear the appeal of the owner of Masterpiece Cakhop Colorado, who’d been sanctned for refg to bake a weddg ke for two gay men. The acceptance of an appeal om a baker who had refed to create a ke for a gay uple based on relig objectns uld easily have led to a public perceptn of new Supreme Court hostily toward gay rights. Colorado Civil Rights Commissn was brought by a baker, Jack Phillips, who had been sanctned unr Colorado law for refg to create a ke for two gay men celebratg their marriage.

NOT THE ONN: MOSW BANS GAY PRI FOR NEXT 100 YEARS

Phillips argued that beg forced to provi a weddg ke to a gay uple vlated his nstutnal rights to the ee exercise of relign and ee speech. He’d prevly told lleagu that he was skeptil of relig exemptns for retailers who would ny servic to gay people.

“The oute of s like this other circumstanc mt awa further elaboratn the urts, all the ntext of regnizg that the disput mt be rolved wh tolerance, whout undue disrpect to scere relig beliefs, and whout subjectg gay persons to digni when they seek goods and servic an open market, ” Kennedy wrote, reflectg his ntued tentativens. Gsburg and Sotomayor were the only dissenters, homg on the bias the gay men faced: “What matters, ” Gsburg wrote, “is that Phillips would not provi a good or service to a same-sex uple that he would provi to a heterosexual uple.

GAY SOCCER PLAYER JOSH CAVALLO TO JUDGE RUPL’S DRAG RACE DOWN UNR

Supreme Court cisn favor of a web signer who did not want to work for gay upl bolsters s fight the U. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circu Richmond is an early tt of how that major Supreme Court cisn ptg ee speech agast anti-discrimatn laws will play out beyond the hypothetil suatn that se, which volved a platiff who had never actually ma weddg webs or been asked to do so by a gay person.

“The Court rejected the dissent’s assertn that s cisn opened the door to discrimatn employment, ” ACLU attorney Josh Block wrote a reply to Becket’s the exampl raised the Supreme Court did not clu a relig anizatn or a gay employee, and Gorsuch repeatedly voked a 2000 cisn allowg the Boy Suts to expel a gay volunteer on “exprsive associatn” grounds. “We all said that thoands of relig anizatns all across the untry ask their employe to uphold their tradnal view of marriage word and ed, and if you terpret the statute that way, ’s gog to unleash lots of lawsus agast them, ” Goodrich the Supreme Court has specifilly said preventg racial discrimatn is a pellg ernment tert that jtifi rtrictg First Amendment eedoms, he noted that the Supreme Court has rejected such a fdg on discrimatn agast gay or transgenr people. Texas Judge Who Ref to Perform Gay Marriag Appeals to Supreme Court's Christian Web-Digner Rulg | Natnal Review.

Slowly but surely, the feral judiciary is beg more Tuday, lawmakers nfirmed two openly gay, black judicial nome, brgg the total number of openly gay feral judg past the double-dig mark. There are currently 10 openly gay judg stg on the feral bench, all of whom were appoted by Print a unanimo vote of 97-0, the U. ”Correctn: A prev versn of this story reported that there were 11 openly gay judg on the feral bench.