{"id":1003936,"date":"2019-03-13T12:45:28","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T16:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1003936"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:08:14","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:08:14","slug":"neomi-rao-did-not-deserve-confirmation-to-the-d-c-circuit-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/neomi-rao-did-not-deserve-confirmation-to-the-d-c-circuit-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Neomi Rao Did Not Deserve Confirmation to the D.C. Circuit Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Today, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Donald Trump\u2019s appointment to replace Brett Kavanaugh on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, Neomi Rao. DNC Women\u2019s Media Director Elizabeth Renda and LGBTQ Media Director Lucas Acosta released the following joint statement in response:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cA vote for Neomi Rao is a vote for a judge who blamed survivors of sexual assaults for being attacked. It is a vote for a judge who claimed sexual orientation is a \u2018behavior\u2019 that can be changed. It is a vote for someone who worked to allow health care providers to deny care to patients seeking reproductive care or HIV treatment based on \u2018conscientious objections.\u2019 It is a vote for someone who called affirmative action the \u2018anointed dragon of liberal excess\u2019 and welfare a program \u2018for the indigent and lazy.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cNeomi Rao does not belong on the federal bench. The Republican Senators who voted in favor of her confirmation to the court today willfully turned their back on women, the LGBTQ community, people with disabilities, low-income families, and countless others. Our party will never stop fighting to defend our Democratic values against Trump\u2019s dangerous appointees to the courts, like Rao.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Donald Trump\u2019s appointment to replace Brett Kavanaugh on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, Neomi Rao. DNC Women\u2019s Media Director Elizabeth Renda and LGBTQ Media Director Lucas Acosta released the following joint statement in response: &nbsp; \u201cA vote for Neomi Rao is a vote for a judge who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Neomi Rao Did Not Deserve Confirmation to the D.C. 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