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Trump’s Supreme Court pick would be a disaster for women, LGBT rights

Neil Gorsuch — Donald Trump’s anti-abortion and anti-LGBT Supreme Court nominee — is on track to get confirmed as soon as next week. Democrats in the Senate are hoping they can kill the nomination with a filibuster, although there may be enough support for Gorsuch’s nomination to defeat a filibuster and allow the vote to happen. Reproductive rights advocates are extremely concerned about his nomination, and rightfully so. Gorsuch had a hand in the Hobby

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Justice Neil Gorsuch? What does Trump’s pick mean for Georgians?

Neil Gorsuch, Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, is widely considered to be aligned with the conservative judicial interpretations of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, someone he greatly admired. Adding a conservative justice to the Supreme Court is concerning, particularly as folks in Georgia are trying to get anti-gerrymandering laws passed and voter suppression continues to be a problem across the South — issues that conservative justices have historically been hostile to. The conservative justices on