A federal judge in Texas has ordered attorneys for Southwest Airlines to take “religious-liberty training” from an influential right-wing Christian legal group behind anti-abortion policies and litigation targeting LGBT+ rights.
US District Judge Brantley Starr – a member of the Federalist Society who was appointed to the bench by Donald Trump in 2019 – issued additional sanctions in an employment law case on 7 August that directs the airline’s lawyers to take eight hours of instruction from Alliance Defending Freedom, which is designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
