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Liberals have achieved Childlike-Morality Technology. CIVIL WAR IMMINENT!

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2nd US judge halts proposed transgender military ban

BALTIMORE (AP) — Another federal judge has halted a proposed transgender military ban, expanding on an initial ruling issued last month against the plan by President Donald Trump’s administration.

In a preliminary injunction issued Tuesday in Baltimore, U.S. District Judge Marvin Garbis ruled that transgender service members have “demonstrated that they are already suffering harmful consequences” due to the proposed ban including threat of discharge, stigma and the cancellation or delay of surgeries related to their gender transitions. The six plaintiffs in the lawsuit he reviewed have all been receiving hormone therapy.

Trump had announced on Twitter in July that the government would not allow transgender individuals to serve in the military in any capacity. The order was a proposed reinstatement of a longstanding policy that barred transgender people from joining the military and also subjected service members to discharge if they were revealed to be transgender. That policy was changed last year under President Barack Obama.

But in a strongly-worded passage from his 53-page decision, Garbis wrote that the “capricious, arbitrary, and unqualified tweet of new policy does not trump the methodical and systematic review by military stakeholders qualified to understand the ramifications of policy change.”

Last month, another federal judge, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington, barred Trump’s administration from proceeding with the plans to exclude transgender people from military service. She said the administration had provided no solid evidence for why a ban should be implemented. In a court filing Tuesday, the government said it would appeal Kollar-Kotelly’s ruling.

A U.S. Department of Justice spokeswoman, Lauren Ehrsam, said officials disagreed with Garbis’ ruling and they are weighing their next steps.

“(The) plaintiffs’ lawsuit challenging military service requirements is premature for many reasons, including that the Defense Department is actively reviewing such service requirements, as the President ordered, and because none of the plaintiffs have established that they will be impacted by current policies on military service,” Ehrsam said in an email.

Trump sent an August memo directing the Pentagon to extend indefinitely a ban on transgender individuals joining the military, and gave Defense Secretary Jim Mattis six months to come up with a policy on “how to address” those who are currently serving.

The DOJ lawyers certainly are keeping busy these days. From what little I know, the Executive Branch's authority in this area is pretty broad so I suspect these lower court rulings will eventually be overruled.

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Ya blew it

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No

pls stop

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Ya blew it

Seems they'd be better off saying California has a problem. This isn't an US thing.

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Uh... yeah sure guy

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He may be............. Joe should ask himself, At this Point, What does it Matter?
Being a Perv in Congress appears to be the standard, so much so they have slush fund to pay off victims. So why does Joe care if there's just another one in Congress ?

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Joe is always right.

Always