They lost, Texas lost the appeal of the horrible trans law.
Texas loses appeal over investigation of transgender teen’s family
KFYR TV
By Andrew DeMillo
March 9, 2022
A Texas court on Wednesday tossed out the state’s appeal of an order preventing child welfare officials from investigating the parents of a transgender teenager over gender-confirming care the youth received.The Texas 3rd Court of Appeals dismissed Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton’s appeal of the temporary order a judge issued last week halting the investigation by the Department of Family and Protective Services into the parents of the 16-year-old girl.
The court ruled that the judge’s temporary order was not appealable.
The parents sued over the investigation and Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s order that officials look into reports of such treatments as abuse. The lawsuit marked the first report of parents being investigated following Abbott’s directive and an earlier nonbinding legal opinion by Paxton labeling certain gender-confirming treatments as “child abuse.”
Paxton on Wednesday also filed a challenge in federal court to guidance that President Joe Biden’s administration issued in response to the Texas governor’s directive.
The appeals court’s decision clears the way for the judge to hold a hearing on whether to issue a broader temporary order blocking enforcement of Abbott’s directive.
Our rights shouldn’t have to be tested in the courts.
All around the country Republicans legislatures are attacking our right to exist, from Idaho’s bill to give life sentences to parents of a trans child, to Alabama bill to lock up our doctor’s for 10 years.
These Republicans don’t care who gets hurts as long as it gets them votes and campaign donations!
The extents to which megalomanic bigots will go to try to force the rest of the world to conform to their own warped narrow-minded viewpoints seems to know no bounds.
ReplyDeleteThere are a plethora of organised bigots (like the "ADF") who have been managing to file court cases (based on hypotheticals and totally devoid of merits and without aggrieved parties) using Limited Liability Companies, then appealing to different United States Circuit Courts of Appeals, hoping to generate disputes that they can then appeal the Supreme Kangaroo Court (which was recently packed by Trump+McConnell) with disingenuous bigots like Brett Kavanaugh Neil Gorsuch and Amy Conehead Barfet who then joined their disingenuous fellow bigots like Samuel Alito on SKKKCOTUS.
Much of this was covered in this Jurisprudence article in SLATE yesterday, on March 9, 2022.
That there are enough embedded extreme-radical-right-wing bigots now embedded in the federal court system to make this possible, and that there are efforts in legislatures to similarly deprive minorities of their rights, is extremely disturbing to say the least.
Everything you said above is absolutely true. Thanks for saying it.