Here Comes The Judge.

And he is not buying Florida dragging their feet in getting the documents.

Judge orders Florida health agency to hand over documents on gender-affirming care
The Hill
By Brooke Migdon
February 1, 2023


A Florida judge has ordered the state’s Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) to produce documents related to its determination that gender-affirming health care cannot be covered under Medicaid because treatments are “experimental and investigational.”

Attorneys for the AHCA — the agency that controls most of the state’s Medicaid program — will have until Feb. 14 to hand over documents it has previously argued are protected under attorney-client privilege and work-product privilege.

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Lawyers for the agency have said that while the desired documents were created for rulemaking purposes, they were also intended for use in litigation they knew would follow the adoption of the rule, making them protected documents by law.

Hinkle said he disagreed.

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Hinkle continued, “Either the experts were retained to assist in an honest evaluative process—in which event their communications were not within work-product protection — or the rulemaking process was a sham and the real goal was to prevail in the anticipated litigation — a possibility the defendants could embrace to win the discovery battle only by acknowledging that the rulemaking process was fatally flawed, or nearly so.”

We all know why Florida officials are dragging their feet. It is because they lied, it is all bogus! It is all made up and not supported by any scientific data.

So stay tune for this continuing saga.

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Speaking of judges.

Texas never wanted ‘bad guys’ to have guns. Now, a court says we can’t stop them | Opinion
Star-Telegram
By Bud Kennedy
February 3, 2023


For 30 years, Texas law has upheld the heroism of a “good guy with a gun.” 

But now, a federal appeals court is letting guys who aren’t good keep their guns. It’s the second recent jarring decision dramatically loosening gun laws. 

A three-judge panel has ruled that the right to self-defense extends to gun owners even while they are under domestic violence restraining orders. Zackey Rahimi, 23, of 

Kennedale, was not a good guy with a gun. He was under a February 2020 civil court order not to harass, stalk or threaten an ex-girlfriend and not to carry a firearm.

They were appointed by: Trump, Trump, & Reagan