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Head of Right Wing Group That Spent Millions on Gorsuch Mocked for Fury Over LGBTQ Rights Opinion

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Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, a Trump appointee, wrote the majority opinion protecting LGBTQ rights in the workplace, and the head of a right-wing group that fought to have him appointed is very very angry.

The head of a far right wing activist group is furious conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote Monday’s majority Supreme Court opinion that finds discriminating against LGBTQ workers is illegal.

Judicial Crisis Network, a “powerful dark money group pushing [the] court to right,” ran a $10 million campaign in 2017 to force Gorsuch onto the bench. He is President Donald Trump’s first Supreme Court nominee. The group also spent $1 million to block President Barack Obama from putting Merrick Garland on the bench.

In a series of tweets, Carrie Severino blasted Justice Gorsuch and the five others who sided with his opinion. She even claims they are merely trying to appeal to college students by finding that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects LGBTQ workers from discrimination.

Gorsuch, a textualist who replaced Justice Antonin Scalia on the bench, decided that as written, the actual words of the Civil Rights Act make clear that discriminating on the basis of sex is illegal.

Severino, who also happens to be married to Roger Severino, a far right wing religious activist who heads the Dept. of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights under Trump, is furious.

President Trump and his administration oppose rights for LGBTQ workers and actively lobbied to have the Court rule discrimination is legal.

On social media many – including some conservatives – are mocking her.

Written by David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement. Photo via NCRM

Sen. Mark Warner says he’ll vote against Neil Gorsuch in SCOTUS battle

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Democratic Virginia Sen. Mark Warner has found himself on the front lines in the fight against President Trump’s executive actions and we can now add the nomination of a new Supreme Court Justice to the list.

In a statement sent out this morning, Warner (top image left) said he was worried about the future of the Senate if the so called “nuclear option” was used. This maneuver, which would required Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to change the rules to deny any future filibusters for Supreme Court nominations, could have “lasting consequences” on the Senate, according to Warner.

But SCOTUS nominee Neil Gorsuch (top image right), who’s been compared philosophically to his replacement Antonin Scalia, didn’t do enough to sway Warner during last week’s confirmation hearings.

“Despite his impressive academic credentials, Judge Gorsuch’s record and evasive responses – even refusing to answer questions regarding his views of cases like Roe v. Wade and Citizens United – do not give me confidence that he possesses a judicial philosophy that will serve the American public well,” Warner said.

For a bit more insight into the recent Gorsuch hearings check out the Daily Show’s breakdown here –

The first vote on Gorsuch is happening as I type this, with a full floor vote expected to shortly follow. Republicans need 60 votes to avoid the “nuclear option” and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has promised as slow the process any way his party can. But if they do, Republicans only need 51 votes to change the rules and they currently have 52 seats.

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