A former Michigan assistant attorney general known for his attacks on the first openly gay student body president at the University of Michigan is appealing the decision by a discipline board to revoke his law license.

Andrew Shirvell claims the board was biased against his beliefs and cites Donald Trump as a reason why he is speaking out.

“Given that my case is one of the most politically-charged to have ever come before a Hearing Panel ... I cannot imagine a more biased panel of attorneys who sat in judgment of me," Shirvell said in a press release Tuesday. "With Donald Trump now in the White House, conservative Christians like me will no longer tolerate being railroaded by the liberal elite."

Shirvell, who was fired by then-Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox in 2010, came to prominence after an intense national media spotlight on Shirvell's anti-gay postings. He had targeted Chris Armstrong, who was the first openly gay student body president at the University of Michigan.

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In 2012, a jury awarded Armstrong $4 million in his lawsuit against Shirvell, accused of harassing Armstrong and claiming he had a "radical homosexual agenda." That award was later knocked down to $3.5 million. An appeals court upheld that sanction.

Earlier this year, a panel of the full Michigan Attorney Discipline Board took his law license away.

On Wednesday, the full board will hear Shirvell's appeal, which centers on what he says is bias against him.

"The hearing panel that revoked my law license consisted of metro-Detroit attorneys Lamont E. Buffington (chairman), Margaret A. (“Peggy”) Costello, and Anthea E. Papista," Shirvell, who lives in Florida now, wrote in his press release. “Among other things, Costello failed to disclose that, as a candidate for judge of the 3rd Circuit

Court (Wayne County) during the August 8, 2000 primary election, she had been publicly and ‘strongly’ endorsed by ‘Pride PAC,’ Michigan’s leading homosexual activist political action committee. In addition, while my case was still pending before her, Costello signed onto a letter attacking then-U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions’ nomination for Attorney General because Costello claimed that Sessions had opposed ‘legislative efforts to promote the rights of women and members of the LGBTQ community.'

“Papista, among other things, failed to disclose that she is an enthusiastic financial supporter of homosexual rights and of Democratic candidates. And, Chairman Buffington failed to disclose that he was a member of the student government at the

University of Michigan Law School who had ‘long experience in student government affairs.'

"It is time for the Michigan Attorney Discipline Board to overturn the hearing panel’s biased determinations and restore my law license.”

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