Tuesday, January 22, 2019

News Flash… It Is A Sad Day

It is a day of victory for bigotry and hate the Supreme Court just banned us from serving in our country military!
Supreme Court allows transgender military ban to go into effect
CNN
By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter
January 22, 2019

The Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump's transgender military ban to go into effect on Tuesday, dealing a blow to LGBT activists who call the ban cruel and irrational.

The Justices did not rule on the merits of the case, but will allow the ban to go forward while the lower courts work through it.

The four liberal justices on the Court objected to allowing the administration's policy banning most transgender people from serving in the military to go into effect.

The policy, first announced by the President in July 2017 via Twitter, and later officially released by then-Secretary of Defense James Mattis, blocks individuals who have been diagnosed with a condition known as gender dysphoria from serving with limited exceptions. It also specifies that individuals without the condition can serve, but only if they do so according to the sex they were assigned at birth.

The court's move is a victory for the Trump administration. While government lawyers wanted the Court to take up the case, they also fought to allow the ban to go into effect while the case plays out in the lower courts.

"Today's dual rulings on the transgender ban allow the controversial policy to go into effect for now, but also allow the appeals to go forward in the lower courts," said Steve Vladeck, CNN Supreme Court analysis and professor of law at the University of Texas School of Law.
Sadly my worst fears are coming to fruition, the unethical packing of the Supreme Court justices who want to put their bigotry and the Bible ahead of the Constitution.

The ruling lifts the ban on blocking the Executive Order while the case is being heard, but it also signals that the court is predisposed to allowing Trump to ban us from the military.

Bigotry and hate just became the law of the land.



Update: 1/23/19 @ 9:30AM
This interview of Jennifer Levi on the Rachel Maddow show helps clear up the status the ban on the military ban.

I have worked with Jennifer Levi for over a decade fighting for trans rights.

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