A federal judge blocked most of a law championed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ® that strictly limited transgender health care for adults and banned it completely for children.
In his decision, U.S. District Judge Robert L. Hinkle rejected a common mantra of the DeSantis administration, saying that “gender identity is real,” and that the state cannot deny transgender individuals treatment.
“Florida has adopted a statute and rules that ban gender-affirming care for minors even when medically appropriate,” Hinkle wrote. “The ban is unconstitutional.”
Because… It is.
Good to see from the judge.
I wonder if this will affect other states pulling similar garbage.
Not until it gets to a Circuit Court or SCOTUS, unfortunately.
Nice!
Is it, though? I’m pretty sure the whole idea is to get it before the SCOTUS so they can rule it is constitutional and give states carte blanche to take away peoples’ medical rights, while creating precedent for taking more rights away and making it much more difficult to reverse.
Its gonna have to work its way up eventually and you gotta realize at some point they will wear out their very limited legitimacy if they haven’t already. They already basically have to ban birth control and any “loophole” to forced delivery/birth to be ideologically consistent as enforced by their bullshit stakeholders so their time is already very limited. Hopefully Biden can get the House and Senate and Presidency and rebalance the Court to eliminate the undue influence of these theocrat/oligarch helpers + wannabes
They took arguments that a president should have total immunity from the law seriously, instead of laughing that shit out of the room. What “legitimacy”? And what are the consequences of them losing it? How would those consequences be enforced?
Just one supreme court justice flip would do wonders. Two would give us the edge. If I have only one reason to ask people to vote for Biden, it’s that.
The Democrats must learn to never be as weak as they were and never work with Republicans in good faith on anything serious. If they say “Let the voters decide”, take a look at their record and see immediately that they don’t follow their own prescription.
“Nope, fuck off. Filabuster away!”
They need to start alwaya assuming bad-faith and require a vigorous case to the contrary if they are to engage at all with these insufferables
I don’t see how this relates to my comment? You can’t dig up fortitude to install a Supreme Court Justice. You either own the presidency and the numbers in congress, or you don’t. The Supreme Court is directly tied to the long-term voting patterns of our citizenry and that’s why it looks the way it does right now.
You are completely correct. We’d first need a strong majority in Congress to impeach Alito. That would have to coincide with a Democratic President in office for appointment of a Democratic Justice.
The solution to this is the same as it’s ever been. Vote blue no matter who. Disengagement leads to low turnout, which leads to Republican wins, which leads to regression of policy and more centrist Democratic candidates to capture more of the centrist vote from Republicans.
If Democrats consistently maintained strong turnout and wins, primaries would become the new elections.
even if Biden doesn’t do anything, there is a real possibility that if the other guy becomes president two old farts retire just before they die and let him appoint two more young demons to serve a lifetime.
hell, they don’t even pretend to give a shit about democracy anyway, I’m not even sure they won’t kill one of the liberal justices.
