Posted on 03/19/2019 3:10:32 PM PDT by Revel
A federal judge on Wednesday affirmed her injunction preventing President Trump’s transgender military policy from taking effect remains in place days after the Pentagon released a memo to implement the policy.
In a three-page order, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia wrote that “defendants were incorrect in claiming that there was no longer an impediment to the military’s implementation of the [transgender policy] in this case.”
Asked whether the order will affect plans to implement the policy April 12, a Pentagon spokeswoman said the department is “consulting with the Department of Justice on next steps.”
The spokeswoman referred further comment to the Justice Department, which declined to comment.
Last week, acting Deputy Defense Secretary David Norquist signed a memo implementing a policy that would ban most transgender people from serving in the military. The memo makes the policy effective April 12.
The memo came roughly a week after a federal court ruled to lift the last of the injunctions preventing Trump’s policy from taking effect.
A federal judge in Maryland ruled he had no choice but to the lift the injunction after the Supreme Court in February ruled 5-4 to lift two other injunction.
But advocates for transgender troops and the Trump administration continued to fight over whether a fourth injunction remained in place despite the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia’s ruling to lift it.
The plaintiffs in that lawsuit argued the injunction still holds until they decide whether they want a rehearing in front of the appeal court’s full bench. The deadline for them to decide is March 29.
In Tuesday’s court order, Kollar-Kotelly agreed, saying the D.C. Circuit Court’s judgment is not final until it issues a mandate after the deadline passes
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Who elected this judge clown?
I thought the judge was overruled by SCOTUS.
How many troops does the Judge have?
Go to hell, judge.
Lets see how the Dems scream to defend putting cross dressing kooks in the military.
All my life, I thought the president was Commander-in-Chief of the military.
Might as well not have a commander in chief. The courts are plenty capable of enforcing the law and securing our borders /huffing model glue
ICYMI, we’re going to war.
Patience is a virtue here.
They’re almost certain lose at the SC level if it goes that far.
They know that where the buck stops they are usually screwed and a breath away from being permanently screwed.
When Trump wins again, RBG has to survive almost another six years.
Patience is a virtue.
So, the Commander-in-Chief can be over-ridden by a friggen judge? Really?
Kicking the can. SCOTUS has ruled....This will likely be smacked down bigly.
“Who elected this judge clown?”
She was appointed by Bill Clinton.
Actually it would seem that I did miss it. What's up?
It was my understanding SCOTUS already ruled in Trump and common f-—ing sense’s favor.
Like border security, travel ban, illegal ‘immigration’, etc. this doesn’t belong in the courts.
Sorry judge, but the Supreme Court says otherwise. You black robbed POS scumbag.
“So, the Commander-in-Chief can be over-ridden by a friggen judge? Really?”
Trump’s IDIOT FARKING ‘LEGAL’ ADVISORS have pretty much ceded all executive powers to the courts. There’s nothing they won’t pull an injunction on now.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/22/us/politics/transgender-ban-military-supreme-court.html
But I do not understand why this lower court is still trying to drop the ban, when the USSC has already ruled on it.
The judge should have no say in the matter and should be militarily detained as a matter of national security.
Horrid sign of the demise of our republic: No one can be sure of the law.
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