William H Pryor: Perhaps the most polarizing Supreme Court justice possibility
William H. Pryor Jr., an Alabama-based judge on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, would be the only member of the Supreme Court who did a stint as a politician, and it was during that time that he took some of his most notable positions on civil rights and discrimination cases.
As Alabama’s twice-elected attorney general, Pryor defended the state’s practice of handcuffing prison inmates to hitching posts in the hot sun if they refused to work on chain gangs. A staunch defender of federalism, he filed an amicus brief in a Supreme Court case, Lawrence v. Texas, that ultimately invalidated state sodomy laws, arguing that “states should remain free to protect the moral standards of their communities through legislation that prohibits homosexual sodomy.”
Pryor, 54, has been an especially outspoken critic of abortion rights, calling Roe v. Wade “the worst abomination of constitutional law in our history.”
If his confirmation to the 11th Circuit is any indication, the judge is in for a lengthy battle if he is nominated by President Trump to the Supreme Court.
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