Meet the enemy...

[littlemissmartypants]

Last edited Thu May 5, 2022, 10:15 PM - Edit history (1)

At least one of them and her husband too. They are both, unsurprisingly, Conservative Catholics and have six children.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Campbell_Severino

Carrie Campbell Severino (née Campbell) an American lawyer and conservative political activist. She is the head of the Judicial Crisis Network (JCN)*, where she has played a leading role in the campaigns to support the Supreme Court nominations of Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh. She is the coauthor (with Mollie Hemingway) of Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court.

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While attending Harvard Law School**, she met her future husband Roger Severino, two years ahead of her there. Both were active with the law school's Society for Law, Life and Religion, a conservative anti-abortion group.

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In 2016, Mother Jones described Severino as "a leader of the current conservative campaign to block any Obama Supreme Court nominee."[13] Under her leadership, the Judicial Crisis Network spent more than $5 million on the campaign to oppose Obama's 2016 nomination of Merrick Garland for the Supreme Court.

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Here she is on May the third, on Amanpour and Company...

Her husband was a Trump appointee. Quoi un surprise. S/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Severino

Roger Thomas Severino is an American attorney who served as the director of the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) at the United States Department of Health and Human Services from 2017 to 2021.

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From 2008 to 2015, Severino was a trial attorney in the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. Severino was also previously CEO and counsel for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a nonprofit law firm taking on cases related to freedom of religion. In 2015, Severino joined The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank geared towards public policy. There, he served as the Director of the DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society at The Heritage Foundation.[3] Severino has written several opinion columns for The Daily Signal. Severino has also written for Public Discourse: Ethics, Law, and the Common Good, a journal published by Witherspoon Institute, a conservative think-tank.[4]

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A social conservative and devout Catholic, Severino has often been criticized for being anti-LGBT.[5][6] The Human Rights Campaign has described Severino as a "radical anti-LGBTQ activist."[9] In 2018, Severino called the Obama administration's expansion of sex to include gender identity "radical gender ideology."[10][11] In an op-ed co-written by former U.S. Senator Jim DeMint, Severino said that "transgender rights supporters see sex as 'merely a placeholder’ assigned at birth."[12]

As director of the HHS Office for Civil Rights, Severino was instrumental in the removal of nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people established in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The removal of the provision will allow healthcare providers to deny care based on a patient's sexuality or gender identity.[13][14]

In July 2020, President Trump nominated Severino a three-year Council position on the Administrative Conference of the United States.[15] Severino was commissioned in January 2021, in the final days of Trump's presidency, and in February, filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming the Biden administration offered him an ultimatum to resign or be terminated.[16][17]

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* The Judicial Crisis Network (JCN) (formally known as the Concord Fund and formerly known as the Judicial Confirmation Network), is an American conservative advocacy organization based in the United States. Its president is Carrie Severino, a former law clerk for Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas.[1] In 2020, OpenSecrets described JCN as having "unmatched influence in recent years in shaping the federal judiciary."[2]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_Crisis_Network

** Harvard Law class of 2004 and quoted in the Harvard Law Bulletin commenting on the so called "silencing" of Conservatives.

https://today.law.harvard.edu/feature/rights-moves/

Often, students say, conservative “silencing” is a sign of simple resignation–after a few volleys of booing and hissing, many students don’t feel like bothering to make their points. “I think it’s a de facto silencing, where you want to choose your battles or get tired of sounding like the ‘crazy conservative freak,'” said Carrie Campbell ’04, vice president of HLS’s 10-year-old Society for Law, Life and Religion, a group that opposes abortion rights. “It’s the underlying assumptions going on that are not worth making a topic of discussion.”

She and her husband have made it their life's work to kill Roe v. Wade, among other things. They're not going to stop with Roe v. Wade. They're going after LGBTQ+ rights next. We should be very concerned about them getting a "win" now and at all costs.

This is war.

[NBachers]

1. So if Merrick Garland had made it to the Supreme Court, I wonder who our current AG would be?

[littlemissmartypants]

2. Interesting question. I'm not sure anyone different would be able to undo

more than two decades of insurgent guerrilla tactics perpetrated by these substantially funded, laser focused, willfully ignorant, so called "religious" misogynistic facists.

Thanks for the reply, NBachers. ❤

[LeftInTX]

3. If he had made it, we would not be in this mess!

[NBachers]

4. Just spitballing, but that was the direction I was heading towards.

[BigmanPigman]

5. She's a fucking zealot like Phyllis Schlafly.

[littlemissmartypants]

6. Absolutely! ❤