{"id":3753,"date":"2026-01-03T19:21:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T03:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/?p=3753"},"modified":"2026-01-03T19:21:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T03:21:04","slug":"how-trump-is-making-the-federal-judiciary-younger-whiter-and-more-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2026\/01\/03\/how-trump-is-making-the-federal-judiciary-younger-whiter-and-more-republican\/","title":{"rendered":"How Trump Is Making the Federal Judiciary Younger, Whiter, and More Republican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the problems with Benton and Lea, no one came off worse at this week\u2019s hearing than\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ballsandstrikes.org\/nominations\/justin-olson-senate-judiciary-committee-hearing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Justin Olson<\/a>, an Indianapolis lawyer who specializes in litigation seeking to exclude transgender athletes from college sports. Louisiana Republican Senator John Kennedy asked Olson about his time as an ordained elder in the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America, during which Olson gave sermons about how \u201ctransgenderism, homosexuality, and fornication\u201d are \u201csexual perversions\u201d that come from \u201cshame on the inside,\u201d and argued that God \u201chas called wives to be subject to their husband.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Olson didn\u2019t stop there. He also argued that marriage may not be for everyone, including \u201cour handicapped friends or our persons with physical disabilities that might prevent the robust marriage that we\u2019re called to.\u201d Anti-gay, anti-trans, anti-woman beliefs have been pretty common among Trump nominees, but taking issue with disabled people because they might not be able to have enough sex is a new one. Variety is the spice of life!<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/cafe\/how-trump-is-making-the-federal-judiciary-younger-whiter-and-more-republican\">Talking Points Memo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the problems with Benton and Lea, no one came off worse at this week\u2019s hearing than\u00a0Justin Olson, an Indianapolis lawyer who specializes in litigation seeking to exclude transgender athletes from college sports. Louisiana Republican Senator John Kennedy asked Olson about his time as an ordained elder in the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America, &#8230; <a title=\"How Trump Is Making the Federal Judiciary Younger, Whiter, and More Republican\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/2026\/01\/03\/how-trump-is-making-the-federal-judiciary-younger-whiter-and-more-republican\/\" aria-label=\"More on How Trump Is Making the Federal Judiciary Younger, Whiter, and More Republican\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[253,296,297,276,137,723],"class_list":["post-3753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anti-abortion","tag-anti-lgbtq","tag-anti-trans","tag-christian-worldview","tag-gop","tag-traditional-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3754,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753\/revisions\/3754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/no-rights-to-speak-of.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}