Trump's Supreme Court front-runners 'antithetical" to Ginsburg's legacy, critics say

The women on President Donald Trump's shortlist to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court do not reflect Ginsburg’s legacy and could undo key civil rights victories she backed during her 27 years on the court, LGBTQ and civil rights advocates warn.

“Just having a woman, any woman, does not cut it,” Sunu P. Chandy, legal director of the progressive National Women’s Law Center, told NBC News. “We need someone with deep civil rights experience and background if we are looking to fill the legacy of her seat on the court.”

In addition to her work as a champion of women’s rights, Ginsburg voted in favor of expanding LGBTQ rights in every opportunity she had as a Supreme Court justice. She voted with the majority to expand rights in Romer v. Evans, a 1996 decision that struck down Amendment 2 of the Colorado Constitution, which barred local governments from recognizing gay men and lesbians as a protected class; Lawrence v. Texas, a 2003 decision that decriminalized same-sex sexual activity; United States v. Windsor, a 2013 decision that decimated the Defense of Marriage Act; Obergefell v. Hodges, a 2015 decision that made same-sex marriage legal across the United States; and Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, a 2020 decision that ruled Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.