Federal judge, siding with Texas, blocks Obama rules on bathrooms for transgender students

The Dallas Morning News ^ | August 22, 2016 | Tom Benning

[Trump20162020]

AUSTIN - A federal judge has blocked the Obama administration's transgender guidelines for public schools, siding late Sunday with Texas and a dozen other states that challenged the contentious instructions.

U.S District Judge Reed O'Connor of Fort Worth, in issuing a nationwide preliminary injunction, said that federal officials didn't follow proper procedures in creating the directives. Further, he said the guidelines contradicted existing statutes and regulatory texts.

[i_robot73]

>So the judge is a precise, by-the-book man. That is no cause for celebration. These procedural trivialities will get “fixed” and the regs will stand.

The judge should had said “This is an abomination to all mankind and defies common sense. It hurts and damages the most innocent among us. It protects the tiniest minority imaginable at the expense of the great majority. I will not stand for it in Texas and hereby find it unlawful.”

Then we would have cause for celebration, the judge would have been a real man and a hero
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IMO, if, and until, the ‘by the books’ include, and START with, the Constitution, there’s no to even give the ‘judge’ a nod of appreciation.

His rational for the ruling begins at step 20, his presumption that steps 1-19 are legitimate to begin.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Good point...if he had cited the Constitution and enumerated, limited powers we could celebrate. But citing regulatory process problems is pure BS.

[lepton]

It’s not the state application of a rule. It’s the Federal application of the rule, being heard before his court. The ruling applies to the Federal action...not the state objection.