Alliance for Justice Issues Statement on VanDyke Nomination for 9th Circuit
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"He has few ties to the legal community in
"He currently works at the DOJ's Environmental and Natural Resources Division alongside outspoken climate change denier
"VanDyke was chosen for this position because he has a documented record of putting his own ultraconservative ideology over the law, and the Trump administration is confident that he will continue to do so if he's confirmed."
AFJ reports that:
* VanDyke spent his time as states solicitor general focused on overturning Roe v. Wade, attacking marriage equality, fighting better wages for workers, and leading assaults on environmental protections, often in flagrant disregard of state laws designed to uphold the very rights he was attacking.
* VanDyke has a long history of opposing environmental protections. In addition to attacking clean air and water measures as states solicitor general, he ran his failed
* In an amicus brief in support of
* VanDyke has written favorably about conversion therapy and supported bans on same-sex marriage. He also promoted myths that same-sex couples harm children and society and that LGBTQ people are deviant and dangerous. Further, he worked for the virulently anti-LGBTQ Alliance Defending Freedom, which the
* VanDyke led a 22-state coalition in a lawsuit to stop the
Click here to read our full report (https://afj.org/our-work/nominees/lawrence-vandyke).
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