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.”
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?