A group of conservative organizations are opposing one of President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees, calling her a threat to religious liberty based on arguments she made as a lawyer.
Loren AliKhan, a nominee for United States District Judge for the District of Columbia, represented D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser before the D.C. district court in 2020, defending COVID-19 lockdown orders that prohibited churches from meeting, even when socially distanced and wearing masks outdoors while allowing large protests to continue in the wake of George Floyd’s death.
Citing her “remarkably long record of advocacy against religious freedom” as a lawyer, over a dozen conservative groups, led by First Liberty Institute, opposed AliKhan in a Wednesday letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee.