As a second Trump administration approaches, we’re running out of time to confirm as many federal judges as possible to provide a check on his presidential power and curb his stated policy priorities.
There are 40 federal judicial vacancies and 16 nominations before the Senate right now—as our civil rights hang in the balance, take action now!
Shiwali Patel, the director of safe and inclusive schools at the National Women’s Law Center, who has focused on issues affecting LGBTQ+ students, said these arguments are disingenuous. “They frame it as needing to protect women and girls and really weaponizing the language of sex discrimination to justify discrimination — really turning the intent of civil rights protections against sex discrimination on its head to target an already-vulnerable and marginalized group of people,” she said.
