Puerto Rico Gov. Alejandro García Padilla made judicial history yesterday when he nominated openly lesbian judge Maite Oronoz Rodriguez to the commonwealth's Supreme Court.
For more than 15 years, Lambda Legal has been working together with leaders, advocates and community organizers in Puerto Rico to defend and secure the rights of LGBT and HIV-affected Puerto Ricans.
Lambda Legal sent Puerto Rico Gov. Alejandro García Padilla a letter urging him to take certain considerations into account when nominating a new justice to the Puerto Rico Supreme Court or making any other judicial nominations.
In a brief filed today, Lambda Legal and Fundación Artículo II ask the Court to reconsider and reverse a Feb. 20 ruling that upheld a ban on second-parent adoptions by lesbian and gay parents.
Controversy accompanies prosecutions under hate crime laws, and perhaps that’s inevitable; the pattern of discrimination that shows people have been targeted based upon their personal traits springs from prejudices we have not conquered.