Trump’s Judicial Nominee: Gay Judges Shouldn’t Hear LGBT Cases
One of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees has said that gay judges shouldn’t hear LGBT cases – because they’re biased. Howard C. Nielson Jr.’s comments came after the 2010 Hollingsworth v. Perry case which made same-sex marriage legal in California. Nielson argued that the chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Vaughn Walker, should have recused himself because he was in a same-sex relationship. The revelations were released by the Alliance for Justice (AFJ), a group which monitors the judiciary. They raised concerns over Nielson’s nomination in a new report. It showed that Nielson […]