Pig Fed Judge Appointed by Reagan Blocks Trump’s Executive Order to Deport Trannies to Men’s Prisons

The judge is probably right that Trump’s order is illegal under the current framework of US law.

Basically, the constitutional guarantees of “free association” were destroyed by a series of laws that required “civil rights” equalities for blacks and then for women. Then the gays got those rights. Then the trannies.

In order to actually do federal bans on trannies getting access to women’s federal facilities, you would need to overturn the entire “civil rights” infrastructure, or you would need to pass a law in Congress saying that there are only two genders and therefore “trans” people do not exist and cannot be protected by civil rights legislation.

Of course, the entire framework of US law as it stands right now is basically creative writing, so there is probably some weasel way to ban trannies from US women’s prisons without an act of Congress. I’m not an expert in this field.

The Guardian:

A US judge has temporarily blocked federal prisons from transferring transgender women to men’s facilities and barring their access to hormone therapy, halting one of Donald Trump’s executive orders seeking to erode trans rights behind bars.

A lawsuit filed last week by three incarcerated trans women challenged Trump’s anti-trans order, which directed the US bureau of prisons to make sure “males are not detained in women’s prisons or housed in women’s detention centers” and that no federal funds go to gender-affirming treatment or procedures for people in custody.

The US district judge Royce Lamberth in Washington on Tuesday issued a temporary restraining order, ruling late on Tuesday that Trump’s order discriminates against transgender people and violates their constitutional rights.

Royce Lamberth, appointed by Ronald Reagan

The bureau must “maintain and continue the plaintiffs’ housing status and medical care as they existed immediately prior to January 20”, he wrote.

The judge said the trans women had “straightforwardly demonstrated that irreparable harm will follow” if they are denied healthcare and forced into men’s institutions.

On 26 January, a federal judge in Boston issued a restraining order in a separate challenge to the same executive order. That order was limited to one transgender woman in a woman’s prison.

Trump and his people were no doubt aware that all of these executive orders, or at least most of them, were going to be hit with blocks from our overlords, the court system.

It’s not even clear what any of these EOs are worth, as the courts are only just now getting around to responding to them, given that Trump fired so many of them at once.

Probably, most of the deportation orders can stand, as illegal immigration is already clearly illegal, though even there, you have various “human rights” laws which claim that these people are “seeking asylum” and therefore can live on welfare and commit crimes in the United States forever.

It would be much more meaningful if Trump was actually barraging Congress with laws and forcing them through. Republicans control both houses of Congress, so that is in theory something that is possible.