Posted on 10/25/2022 5:15:55 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A federal judge in Alabama quashed the invasive subpoena the Biden administration served on the conservative Eagle Forum and Southeast Law Institute, holding the material sought from the nonprofits fell outside the scope of discovery relevant to the Department of Justice’s lawsuit challenging Alabama’s law banning chemical and surgical transgender experimentation on minors. Monday’s victory proves Americans can fight back against the Biden administration’s weaponizing of the DOJ.
The Department of Justice had subpoenaed the Eagle Forum and Southeast Law Institute in August, demanding all materials related to the nonprofits’ support of the Alabama Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act (VCAP). Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey had signed VCAP into law on April 8, 2022, with the legislation banning puberty blockers, wrong-sex hormones, or surgical procedures performed on minors “if the practice is performed for the purpose of attempting to alter the appearance of or affirm the minor’s perception of his or her gender or sex, if that appearance or perception is inconsistent with the minor’s sex.”
Less than two weeks later, in Eknes-Tucker v. Marshall, four transgender-identifying children, their parents, and several others sued the governor of Alabama and other state officials, challenging the constitutionality of VCAP. The plaintiffs in the Eknes-Tucker case argued that VCAP violates the constitutional right of parents to obtain medical treatment for their children and the equal-protection rights of transgender minors. The Biden administration quickly joined the lawsuit as a plaintiff, asserting the same equal-protection argument as the children.
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well, there you have it. The liberal view, is that there is a constitutional right to “gender altering” surgery on minors. And so, as they do with other issues, the liberals are going to try to force their view through the courts.
The next step would be that there is a constitutional right that medical insurance, including public health programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, must pay for such treatments.
Call it what it is.. Eugenics. Population Control.
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"On Monday, Judge Burke — the same judge who had enjoined enforcement of the statute — granted the motions to quash, finding the requested information outside the scoop of discovery.“The subpoenas command Eagle Forum and Southeast Law Institute to produce eleven broad categories of evidence, ranging from draft legislation, to communications with the Alabama Legislature, to polling or public opinion data, to social media postings,” the court wrote. But “these materials are unlikely to reveal or lead to any information that would help resolve the fundamental issue in this case,” which is the constitutionality of Alabama’s VCAP, the court stressed. Thus, “the requested material has little — if any — relevance for purposes of discovery,” Burke concluded. And the burden to the nonprofits, the court held, far outweighed any slight relevance possible.
While the court could have left the matter there, Burke instead chastised the DOJ for submitting “overly broad and unduly burdensome” subpoenas."
Project Veritas time.
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