Gay judge
Biden makes history with 12th Senate-confirmed LGBTQ judge
President Joe Biden secured the record for the highest number of openly LGBTQ judges appointed to the bench by any president when the Senate on Tuesday voted in favor of a military veteran who spent years working as a prosecutor becoming a life-tenured assess in Philadelphia.
The Democratic-led Senate voted 52-41 to confirm Mary Kay Costello to serve as a district court decide in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, becoming the 12th openly LGBTQ judicial nominee under Biden to win confirmation.
That surpassed the tape of Democratic former President Barack Obama, who had secured the confirmation of 11 openly LGBTQ judges during his eight years in office.
Lena Zwarensteyn, senior director of the fair courts program at the linear Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, applauded Biden for his shove to diversify the bench.
“As LGBTQ rights are being subject to litigation across the country, it is increasingly evident that we demand judges at all levels of the judiciary who grasp what’s at stake,” Zwarensteyn said in a statement.
Costello, who is married to a woman, served in the U.S. Air Force from 198
India’s Supreme Court Collegium Wednesday reconsidered the proposal to appoint openly gay lawyer Saurabh Kirpal as a Delhi High Court determine, and observed that every individual is “entitled to maintain their own dignity and individuality based on sexual orientation.” Kirpal’s appointment has been pending for the last five years.
Saurabh Kirpal is an Indian lawyer, author and LGBTQ+ Activist. He was one of the lawyers in the constitutional challenge of Section 377 of the Penal Code i.e, the case of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in India. In October 2017, the Delhi Elevated Court Collegium recommended Kirpal for appointment as a judge. In November 2021, the Supreme Court Collegium approved the recommendations. However, in November 2022, the Statute minister sent back the recommendation to the Supreme Court’s Collegium for reconsideration.
The Research & Assessment Wing (R&AW) in their letters raised two objections against the recommendation of appointing Kirpal as a judge. First, Kirpal’s boyfriend is a Swiss National. Second, that he is “in an intimate relationship and is unseal about his sexual orientation.” The Union Law Minister also q
Hon. Paul G. Feinman ’81, First Openly Gay Judge on New York Tall Court
“My entire career has been about promoting equal access and equal justice for all,” Feinman said. “I hope I add to the diversity of perspectives that the court considers.” He was sworn in on June 21, 2017, during Gay Self-acceptance Month.
Feinman, who learned he had leukemia in 2015, died on March 31, 2021, in Modern York City. He had resigned from the bench just eight days prior to his passing.
Feinman was born on January 26, 1960, in Merrick, N.Y., and graduated from John F. Kennedy H.S. in nearby Bellmore. At the College, he majored in French literature and was a legal intern in Upper Manhattan before earning a J.D. from the University of Minnesota, where he helped set up an association for gay students. Feinman also studied in France at the Université de Paris VII (Jussieu), the Université de Paris II (Assas) and the Université de Lyon III. He remained a lifelong Francophile and treated his nieces and nephews to tr
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