Judge halts Trump’s transgender troop ban

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Monday, October 30, 2017

A federal judge on Monday halted President Trump’s move to oust transgender service members in the U.S. military and to stop new enlistments, but did allow the Pentagon to stop paying for reassignment treatments.

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, in a 76-page ruling, said Mr. Trump’s policy created an “inherent inequality” that likely violates the Constitution’s protections.

She issued an injunction while she hears the full case, but signaled she’ll likely find Mr. Trump’s move illegal/

“The Court finds that a number of factors — including the sheer breadth of the exclusion ordered by the directives, the unusual circumstances surrounding the President’s announcement of them, the fact that the reasons given for them do not appear to be supported by any facts, and the recent rejection of those reasons by the military itself—strongly suggest that Plaintiffs’ Fifth Amendment claim is meritorious,” Judge Kollar-Kotelly wrote in her opinion.

She said the effect was to revert to the policy that existed before Mr. Trump’s July tweet and later August memo on transgender troops.

But the judge said no plaintiff was able to prove an injury from the government halting its payments for troops seeking sex-reassignment treatments, so she didn’t stop that practice. She invited challengers to re-file if they could make a better-founded argument.

Mr. Trump had been trying to reverse an Obama-era change that allowed transgender troops to serve.

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My comments: This Radical Judge rasies once again, the Issue: WHO RULES AMERICA? Is it the President and Congress, or the JUDICIARY? Who is responsible for the National Security of America, the President or the JUDICIARY?