Sigh.

So what brought on this musing?

I have been looking for news articles to write about this morning but all there are in negative news. I’m already down in the dumps over the weather I don’t need anymore negativity but it is hard to get away from it with all that is going on around us.

Then I was watching CBS Sunday Morning about the Holocaust and I couldn't help but see parallels between 1930s Germany and the United States. In Germany in the 1930s the NAZI drove a wedge between "them and us," those who are “not like us.” They demonized minorities… the Jews, the gays, the trans people, the disabled, the people with congenital disability, the Romani (gypsy), and all other who were not like their Nordic vision.

One of the biggest downers beside the weather is the law suit over trans athletes. The law firm that is representing the cisgender athletes is one that is labeled by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate organization. The law firm says in a Hartford Courant article that they are not a hate group but in the press conference and news articles refer to the trans athletes as “biological males” and use male pronouns. They are also was the law firm for the Masterpiece Cakeshop. They use the law to legalize hate against the LGBTQ community in the guise of “Religious Freedom.”

Why am I worrying over case?

According to Wikipedia…

As of February 12, 2020, the United States Senate has confirmed 192 Article III judges nominated by President Trump, including 2 Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, 51 judges for the United States Courts of Appeals, 137 judges for the United States District Courts, and 2 judges for the United States Court of International Trade. There are currently 33 nominations to Article III courts awaiting Senate action, including 32 for the District Courts and 1 for the Court of International Trade. There are currently 1 vacancy on the U.S. Courts of Appeals, 70 vacancies on the U.S. District Courts, 2 vacancies on the U.S. Court of International Trade, and 5 announced federal judicial vacancies that will occur before the end of Trump's first term (all for District Courts). Trump has not made any recess appointments to the federal courts.

The Republican party has politicized federal judges. The Republicans under the Obama did not even hear any of President Obama’s nominees and now are packing the court with unqualified judges, one Appeals Court judge never even tried a case in court and is something like  only ten years out of law school! He now, now he has a lifetime appointment. His qualification to be a judge is his ideology.

So the case in Hartford is stacked against us with Trump appointed judges, a Secretary of Education who doesn’t believe in Title IX and will file an amicus brief against the trans athletes. The Attorney General has said that he also disregarded all the court cases that have found that we are covered under Title IX.

I am worried that the Supreme Court that the Republicans packed with vote against diversity and come down on the side of bigotry. This court case could be case that sets back LGBTQ human rights for a century.

The news is just as bleak as the weather.