Judge says Trump cannot implement transgender military policy

[Right_in_Virginia]

Judge says Trump cannot implement transgender military policy
The Hill, Mar 19, 2019

A federal judge on Tuesday said 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 on April 12, a Pentagon spokeswoman said the department is “consulting with the Department of Justice on next steps.”

The spokeswoman referred further questions 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.


More:  https://thehill.com/policy/defense/434802-federal-judge-says-hold-on-trumps-transgender-military-policy-remains

[Fishrrman]

Appeal this "upward", on the double !

[Bigun]

Just keep on doing what you're doing and see if this idiot judge can enforce anything she says.

[Maj. Bill Martin]

Appeal this "upward", on the double !

It's not really an appeallable issue -- it's more of a very technical delay until March 29.

The Supreme Court already said Trump was right.  The way that works is that the lower courts that issued orders then vacate them.  A panel of the D.C. Circuit did vacate that order, but the plaintiffs argue that they have until March 29 to apply for a rehearing by the entire D.C. Circuit.  If they file for a rehearing, it almost certainly will be immediately denied by the D.C. Circuit, and the order lifting the ban will then be confirmed.

[verga]

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