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The President has the power – indeed the obligation – to ensure military readiness,
she wrote in her 79-page opinion
The Armed Forces have been afflicted with radical gender ideology to appease activists unconcerned with the requirements of military service like physical and mental health, selflessness, and unit cohesion,
the executive order readThis is the latest example of an activist judge attempting to seize power at the expense of the American people who overwhelmingly voted to elect President Trump,
a Justice Department spokesperson told Axios
The military ban is soaked in animus and dripping with pretext,
Reyes wrote
We are appealing this decision, and we will win,
Hegseth said in a post to X on WednesdayIts language is unabashedly demeaning, its policy stigmatizes transgender persons as inherently unfit, and its conclusions bear no relation to fact,
Axios reported
The fact that they have already been transferred and, allegedly, have been abused at their new facilities can only strengthen their claims of irreparable harm,
Lamberth wrote
We’ll see you in court.”
During the heated exchange, Mills told Trump
District court judges have now decided they are in command of the Armed Forces…is there no end to this madness?"
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller condemned Reyes' ruling on X, writingThe court knows that this opinion will lead to heated public debate and appeals. In a healthy democracy, both are positive outcomes,
Reyes wrote, delaying her order until Friday morning to allow time for the Trump administration to appealWomen were ‘included in the sequel’ when passage of the Nineteenth Amendment granted them the right to vote in 1920, ... That right is one of the many that thousands of transgender persons serve to protect."
Reyes wrote in the footnotes, addingUnelected rogue judges are trying to steal years of time from a 4 year term. It’s the most egregious theft one can imagine: robbing the vote and voice of the American People,
Miller wrote in another X postThe ban at bottom invokes derogatory language to target a vulnerable group in violation of the Fifth Amendment
Judge Reyes wrote
Leaders have used concern for military readiness to deny marginalized persons
Reyes wroteTheir lives and careers are completely disrupted
Lawyer representing the service members Shannon Minter told the New York TimesDefendants’ position does not urge judicial deference to military judgment. It urges judicial abdication. No. The law does not demand that the Court rubber-stamp illogical judgments based on conjecture,
Reyes wrote
Plaintiffs, they acknowledge, have 'made America safer,
Reyes wroteNow I can go back to focusing on what’s really important, which is the mission,
said Talbott, a platoon leader for a military policing unitWe have to be careful with how we use this data,
Reyes said
The fact that transgender people deploy longer after a gender dysphoria diagnosis and depression, would tell us they are actually better suited to stay in service than a cohort of depressed [non transgender] people,
she remarked