From the IndivisibleGuide:
Kevin Newsom is part of Donald Trump’s larger attack against American civil rights and liberties. Tell your Senators that you want them to vote against Newsom.
http://www.pfaw.org/blog-posts/serious-concerns-about-11th-circuit-nominee-kevin-newsom/
“Newsom is also deeply hostile to substantive due process, which the Supreme Court has recognized as protecting the right of women to choose an abortion and the right of same-sex couples to marry. In his 2000 article “Setting Incorporationism Straight – A Reinterpretation of the Slaughter-House Cases,” he wrote:
Most obviously and importantly, my reading would permit courts to lay aside the historically confused and semantically untenable doctrine of “substantive due process,” a doctrine that has for years visited suspicion and disrepute on the judiciary’s attempt to protect even textually specified constitutional freedoms, such as those set out in the Bill of Rights, against state interference.”
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