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The Texas Panhandle received excellent federal judicial service for nearly four decades, thanks to the steady hand provided by U.S. District Judge Mary Lou Robinson.<\/p>\n

She is stepping aside. A new president has nominated a replacement for Judge Robinson. But some potentially chilling information is coming forth about the new guy.<\/p>\n

The Texas Tribune is reporting on statements made by another judicial nominee who is linked to the man Donald Trump has selected for the Northern District of Texas federal bench.\u00a0Jeff Mateer formerly served as general counsel for a right-wing advocacy group, the First Liberty Institute; Matthew Kaczmaryk — Trump’s choice to succeed Robinson — is deputy<\/em> general counsel for the same group. Mateer now works in the Texas attorney general’s office. Follow me for a moment.<\/p>\n

Mateer is Trump’s pick for another federal judgeship. He reportedly believes transgender children are part of “Satan’s work.”<\/p>\n

In a 2015 speech, Mateer said this, according to the Texas Tribune <\/a>Texas Tribune, about the U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized gay marriage in the United States:\u00a0\u201cI mean, it\u2019s disgusting,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve learned words I didn\u2019t know. There are people who marry themselves. Somebody wanted to marry a tree. People marrying their pets. It\u2019s just like \u2014 you know, you read the New Testament and you read about all the things and you think, \u2018Oh, that\u2019s not going on in our community.\u2019 Oh yes it is. We\u2019re going back to that time where debauchery rules.\u201d<\/p>\n

There you have it: Same-sex marriage equals “debauchery,” according to Mateer.\u00a0The nation’s highest court ruled that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution guarantees that all Americans are entitled to “equal protection under the law,” meaning that gay Americans have a constitutional right<\/em> to marry people of the same gender.<\/p>\n

My question is whether Kaczmaryk is cut from the same mold as Mateer, given that they both work for the same ultra-right wing advocacy group.<\/p>\n

Is this the kind of justice we can expect from the federal bench in Amarillo? Please say it won’t be so.<\/p>\n\n

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