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Trump stacked courts with judges 'hostile' toward gays, report says

Trump stacked courts with judges hostile toward gays, report says Dan Avery © Provided by NBC News The Trump administration has spent the past four years stacking the courts with anti-gay judges, according to a new report from LGBTQ civil rights group Lambda Legal. Nearly 40 percent of President Donald Trump s confirmed federal appellate judges have demonstrated anti-LGBTQ bias, the organization claimed, from opposing same-sex marriage and protecting businesses rights to reject gay customers to helping implement the military s transgender ban. Lambda Legal CEO Kevin Jennings said the report is a call to action for President-elect Joe Biden. While Donald Trump s presidency may be coming to end, his devastating impact on our federal courts will take decades to reverse, Jennings said in a statement. When the basic human rights of LGBTQ+ Americans are so often challenged in court, we cannot accept a judiciary stacked with judges who would disenfranchise t