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Conservatives Love and Liberals Hate This New Trump Nominee: 6 Reactions to Kyle Duncan

By Samuel Smith, Deputy Managing Editor FacebookTwitter
U.S. Fifth Circuit Court Judge Kyle Duncan speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. in November 2017.
U.S. Fifth Circuit Court Judge Kyle Duncan speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. in November 2017. | (Screenshot: C-SPAN)

It took seven months for the United States Senate to confirm Stuart Kyle Duncan to the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans but not without much anger and praise over President Donald Trump's decision to nominate him.

Duncan, a former attorney with the religious freedom law group Becket who has argued two cases before the U.S. Supreme court including the 2014 Hobby Lobby case against the Obamacare contraceptive mandate, was confirmed to the bench by a 50-47 vote on Tuesday. Only one Democrat — Joe Manchin of West Virginia — voted to confirm Duncan.

While Christian conservative leaders and organizations have showered Duncan with praise, LGBT organizations and left-leaning social justice groups have done their part to try and villainize Duncan as being "anti-LGBT" and someone who should "never" be able to hold a lifetime term to the court.

On the following pages are six reactions to Duncan's nomination to the federal appeals court.

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