One of President Trump’s nominees for the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals sobbed during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing when he pushed back on the notion that he would not be fair to people who are gay or transgender.

The American Bar Association sent a blistering letter to committee leadership on Tuesday alleging Trump’s nominee, Lawrence VanDyke, “would not say affirmatively that he would be fair to any litigant before him, notably members of the LGBTQ community.”

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