Trump-appointee delivers 'grotesque Supreme Court audition' with lewd dissent: experts

A federal appeals court judge appointed by President Donald Trump drew an “unprecedented rebuke” from dozens of his judicial colleagues after issuing what legal analysts described as a coarse and indecent dissent targeting transgender women.

According to Slate, Judge Lawrence VanDyke of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals authored a solo opinion going after fellow judges for upholding Washington state’s anti-discrimination law in a case involving Olympus spa, a Korean spa whose owners argued...