Judges gonna be the ones to step up since Democrats and Republican in Congress don’t seem to want to…
A judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked President Trump’s executive order mandating that transgender women in federal prison be housed in male facilities and the government stop funding their gender-affirming care.
After a hearing in Washington, D.C., earlier in the day, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth granted a temporary restraining order Tuesday evening requested by three anonymous transgender women inmates.
Lamberth found they were likely to succeed in their claims that Trump’s order violates the Eighth Amendment’s protections against cruel and unusual punishment.
“It is, of course, possible that further briefing of the constitutional issues at the center of this dispute, or factual discovery, will eventually yield a different outcome. But the plaintiffs, through their largely undisputed factual allegations and proffered affidavits, have met their burden to show a likelihood of success on the merits,” Lamberth wrote in his ruling.
Lamberth, an appointee of former President Reagan, said he was not reaching the plaintiffs’ other arguments that the order violates the Administrative Procedure Act and the Constitution’s equal protection guarantee….
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