FACT SHEET: Information on edmund lacour, Trump's nominee To the northern district of Alabama

Anti-Abortion

• In 2019, Alabama passed a bill banning nearly all abortions and punishing abortion providers with up to 99 years in prison if convicted.

• LaCour represented Alabama in a challenge from the ACLU and Planned Parenthood, where he wrote that “each human life, from the moment of conception, is worthy of protection from lethal violence” and argued that previous Supreme Court abortion precedents were wrongly decided cases.

• LaCour also represented Alabama in a lawsuit seeking to stop the Equal Rights Amendment, where he warned that abortion rights would be expanded if the ERA was ratified.

Defended Alabama's Racial Gerrymander

• LaCour has defended Alabama in multiple cases restricting the civil rights of Black residents. In 2022, he argued for Alabama’s gerrymandered maps before the Supreme Court, which found that the state unconstitutionally diluted the power of Black voters in its maps. LaCour has continued to represent Alabama in ongoing gerrymandering litigation, going so far as to help draw the maps and arm Republicans with talking points. 

• LaCour represented Alabama in a case where Black plaintiffs attempted to challenge the discriminatory intent behind a law blocking Birmingham from raising their minimum wage.

Anti-LGBTQ+

• LaCour has vehemently defended Alabama in anti-trans cases, including a lawsuit seeking to block the Biden administration’s anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ+ students and an amicus brief in the transgender health care case U.S. v. Skrmetti.