Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: This Is What Happens When Trump Packs The Courts

Thursday, May 21, 2026

This Is What Happens When Trump Packs The Courts

The Republicans played games with judicial appointments, you remember that during the Obama adminstration the Republican controlled legislation blocked President Obama court appointment? And that they did the same with President Biden's appointments. Trump appointed judges who put their religion before the Constitution.

Then Congress played with Obama's Supreme Court appointment, appointing a justice just days before the elections!

Well it is now coming home to roost.

Court won't block Rhode Island hospital from releasing transgender care records to Texas judge
Reuters
By Nate Raymond
May 20, 2026

Summary
Hospital turns over anonymized records following court order
Several judges have previously quashed Justice Department subpoenas as overreaching
Justice Department now centering probe in northern Texas, a venue favored by conservatives
A federal appeals court has declined to block a Rhode Island hospital from turning over medical records to a Texas judge that the U.S. Department of Justice is seeking as part of a Trump administration probe into the provision of gender-affirming care to transgender youth.

A three-judge ‌panel of the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals late on Tuesday rejected, opens new tab a request by the Rhode Island official charged with advocating for children in state care to bar Rhode Island Hospital from handing the records over to U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor after he ordered it to do so.

The panel said Rhode Island Child Advocate Katelyn Medeiros had not shown her agency would irreparably suffer if the hospital gave the records to a judge, "particularly one that has assured the parties that the records will not be disseminated unless and until the parties' appeals are resolved."

Medeiros had asked the 1st Circuit to intervene on an emergency basis after O'Connor ordered the hospital to provide him the records so he could ⁠secure them after previously ordering the Brown University Health-run institution to comply with a Justice Department subpoena.

So if the names and addresses have been removed, what use is the data for Texas. The will not know if the child is from Texas or not... so how are they going to know if Texas laws were broken. This is a witch hunt.

Judge Blocks Trump DOJ’s Demand for Rhode Island Transgender Kids’ Medical Records
Insurance Journal
By Kimberlee Kruesi
May 19, 2026

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s sweeping demands for confidential transgender patient information from Rhode Island’s largest hospital that provides gender-affirming care to minors.

U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy’s Wednesday ruling is the latest setback for the U.S. Department of Justice, where at least seven other federal courts have agreed to quash or limit the expansive civil subpoenas sent to more than 20 doctors and hospitals last summer.

However, the appeals court overruled the Rhode Island judge.

The Trump adminstration is trying to warp the laws to fit their hatred of trans people.

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Quotes

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

A right delayed is a right denied.Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

Martin Luther King Jr.

No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela

We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist
James Baldwin

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein

“A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.”
― Booker T. Washington

"We will not walk in fear one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason."
– Edward R. Murrow

"The point is that there are always obstacles, whether they seem insurmountable or merely bothersome. The question is not how difficult the path, but whether in your heart, you wish to undertake the journey."
Zandru's Forge

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

South Pacific
Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rogers

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This Is What Happens When Trump Packs The Courts

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