Here’s how a Trump judicial nominee really feels about laws protecting women against discrimination

The following article by Ian Millhiser was posted on the ThinkProgress website November 15, 2017:

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TEXAS SUPREME COURT JUSTICE AND TRUMP JUDICIAL NOMINEE DON WILLETT (AP PHOTO/CLIFF OWEN)

The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on Wednesday on Texas Supreme Court Justice Don Willett’s nomination to a federal appeals court. Two decades earlier, however, Willett questioned the need for laws protecting women against discrimination in a memo to his boss, then-Gov. George W. Bush (R-TX).

The memo mocked the policy positions of the Texas Federation of Business and Professional Women, which Bush planned to praise in an official proclamation. “Issue-wise,” Willett wrote regarding the Texas women’s group, “they support the ERA, affirmative action, abortion rights, legislation adding teeth to the Equal Pay Act, etc. and they regularly line up with the AFL-CIO and similar groups.” Continue reading “Here’s how a Trump judicial nominee really feels about laws protecting women against discrimination”