Conservative Action Project

March 20, 2018
Washington, DC
Signatures updated 3/21/18

The Senate is currently considering the nomination of Chai Feldblum for reappointment to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) with a five-year term. We urge the Senate to reject her confirmation.

Feldblum has long held views that are out of step with conservative principles and President Trump’s agenda. Feldblum has publicly advocated that sex discrimination, as defined in current law, should be modified to include sexual orientation and gender identity. She also believes that religious liberty exemptions should be extremely narrow.

On the issue of religious liberty, in particular, Feldblum’s views are troubling. She has stated that when religious liberty and sexual liberty are in conflict, sexual liberty should win, and believes that those who disagree should be forced to comply. “To the extent that forced compliance with an equality mandate burdened an individual’s belief liberty,” she wrote in the Brooklyn Law Review, “my argument . . . is that such a burden is likely to be justified.” She has likewise openly disagreed with religious exemptions granted by the federal courts.

Since joining the EEOC, Feldblum has continued to advance an argument, long rejected by the courts, to interpret Title VII of the Civil Rights Act as protecting gays and lesbians from employment discrimination. In a Bloomberg article from 2016, Feldblum articulated her commitment to this interpretation, and underscored that she believed the EEOC should push this interpretation on the courts.

Feldblum’s narrow views on religious liberty are inconsistent with the Constitution and with Supreme Court precedent. Likewise, her insistence on championing a view of the Civil Rights Act that the courts have repeatedly dismissed displays a concerning lack of heed to the courts and congressional intent.

Given this, we believe Chai Feldblum should not be confirmed by the Senate for another five-year term at the EEOC and urge the Senate to reject her nomination.


The Honorable Edwin Meese III
Former Attorney General
President Ronald Reagan
Alfred S. Regnery
Chairman, Conservative Action Project
Chairman, Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund
The Honorable Tony Perkins
President, Family Research Council
President, Council for National Policy
The Honorable Bob McEwen
U.S. House of Representatives
Former Member, Ohio
The Honorable J. Kenneth Blackwell
Chairman
Constitutional Congress, Inc.
Thomas E. McClusky
President
March for Life Action
The Honorable Jim DeMint
Former Member (SC)
United States Senate
Ed Corrigan
Vice Chairman, Conservative Action Project
Former Executive Director, Senate Steering Committee
Wesley Denton
Former Communications Director
Senator Jim DeMint (SC)
Rachel Bovard
Former Policy Director
Senate Steering Committee
The Honorable Colin A. Hanna
President
Let Freedom Ring, Inc.
Diana Banister
President and Partner
Shirley & Banister Public Affairs
The Honorable Becky Norton Dunlop
Former White House Advisor
President Ronald Reagan
Cleta Mitchell, Esq.
The Honorable T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr.
Former Chief Domestic Advisor
President Ronald Reagan
Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin (Ret.)
Executive Vice President
Family Research Council
William L. Walton
Chairman
CNP Action, Inc.
The Honorable David McIntosh
U.S. House of Representatives
Former Member, Indiana
David Barton
Founder and President
WallBuilders
The Honorable Morton Blackwell
Chairman
The Weyrich Lunch
The Honorable Mike Spence
Founding President
Conservative Republicans of California
Allen Roth
President
Secure America Now
Dr. Ted Baehr
Chairman
Movieguide(r)
Charles Copeland
President
Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Malcolm Morris
Chairman
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J. Christian Adams
President
Public Interest Legal Foundation
Tim LeFever
Chairman
Capitol Resource Institute
Don Woodsmall
President
Truth at Wake Forest, Inc.
Elaine Donnelly
President
Center for Military Readiness
Robert K. Fischer
Meeting Coordinator
Conservatives of Faith
Dr. Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D.
Washington Bureau Chief
Infowars.com
Bob Adams
President
Revive America PAC
Peter J. Thomas
Chairman
The Conservative Caucus
Roger Clegg
President and General Counsel
Center for Equal Opportunity
Richard H. Wright
CEO
AAndrews Consulting
Beth Bottcher
Chief of Staff
Capital Research Center
Dr. Everett Piper
President
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Kay R. Daly
President
Coalition for a Fair Judiciary
The Honorable Michael R. Long
State Chairman
NYS Conservative Party
Mrs. Gene E. Phillips
Executive Committee
Council for National Policy
Austin Ruse
President
Center for Family & Human Rights (C-Fam)
Richard D. Hayes
Partner
Hayes, Berry, White & Vanxant LLP
The Honorable Penny Pullen
President
Life Advocacy Resource Project
The Honorable Tim G. Echols
Public Service Commissioner
Georgia Public Service Commission
Tim Wildmon
President
American Family Association
Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse
Board Chairman
The Institute on Religion and Democracy
The Honorable Ken Cuccinelli
President
Senate Conservatives Fund
James N. Clymer
Former Chairman
Constitution Party National Committee
Allen Hebert
Chairman
American-Chinese Fellowship of Houston
Gary L. Bauer
President
American Values
Joan Lindsey
President
Lindsey Communications
Floyd Brown
Chairman
Western Center for Journalism
James L. Martin
Founder/Chairman
60 Plus Association
C. Preston Noell III
President
Tradition, Family, Property, Inc.
The Honorable Mike Hill
Former Member
Florida State Representative
The Honorable Belden Bell
Legacy Society co-chair
The Heritage Foundation
Christopher Malagisi
Editor in Chief
Conservative Book Club
Penny Young Nance
CEO & President
Concerned Women for America
Mario Diaz, Esq.
Legal Counsel
Concerned Women for America
Jonathan M. Alexandre
Director of Public Policy
Liberty Counsel
Richard Bott, II
President/CEO
Bott Radio Network
Richard Bott, Sr.
Founder
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Director
The Windrose Project
Kelly J. Shackelford
President and Chief Counsel
First Liberty Institute
Steve Berger
Pastor
Grace Chapel
Donna Hearne
CEO
The Constitutional Coalition
Willes K. Lee
President
National Federation of Republican Assemblies
Ed Martin
President
Phyllis Schlafly Eagles
Rebekah Gantner
Executive Director
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Lisa Calvert
Christian Speaker
Rabon-Calvert Int.
David Nammo
Executive Director & CEO
Christian Legal Society
Norm Singleton
President
Campaign for Liberty
Judson Phillips
Founder
Tea Party Nation
Mat Staver
Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel
Seton Motley
President
Less Government
John C. Eastman
Salvatori Professor, Chapman University Fowler School of Law and Founding Director, The Claremont Institute’s Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence
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Founder and CEO
The Martin Organization, Inc.
Sherri R. Martin
Executive Vice President
The Martin Organization, Inc.
Haley E. Martin
President
The Martin Foundation
Shawn A. Mitchell
Former National Chaplain
National Federation of Republican Assemblies
Jerry Melvin
Former Dean
Florida House of Representatives
Evelio Silvera
Campaign for the American Future
Nicholas Stehle
Campaign for the American Future
Mitchell Morgan
Chief Financial Officer
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Col. Francis X. De Luca, USMCR (Ret.)
President Emeritus
Civitas Institute
Star Parker
Founder and President
Center for Urban Renewal & Education
Ellen Barrosse
Republican National Committeewoman, Delaware and Chairman, Conservative Steering Committee, RNC
Dr. Virginia Armstrong
National Court Watch Chrm.
Eagle Forum
The Honorable Tom DeLay
Former Majority Leader
US House of Representatives
Clifton P. Schroeder
Attorney At Law
Colonel USMC Retired
Andrea Lafferty
President
Traditional Values Coalition (TVC)
Richard Viguerie
Chairman
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Barry Meguiar
President
Meguiar’s Incorporated
Dean Brode Nelson
Chairman
Frederick Douglass Foundation
Tom DeWeese
President
American Policy Center
Penna Dexter
Co-host
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Peggy Dau Susan Carleson
Chairman/CEO
American Civil Rights Union
Dr. Michael P. Farris
CEO, President, and General Counsel
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Kristen Waggoner
Sr. Vice President, US Legal Division and General Counsel – Arizona
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CEO
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President
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Paul Blair
President
Reclaiming America for Christ

 

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