Administration Bans Memos Obama Used To Allow Transgender Students to Utilize Bathrooms of Choice
Source: Newsweek Magazine
Trump Administration Bans Memos Obama Used To Allow Transgender Student to Utilize Bathrooms of Choice
BY JOSH SAUL ON 11/17/17 AT 3:55 PM
The Department of Justice will no longer issue guidance memos, which had been used to create sweeping new rules, as when the Obama administration utilized them last year to force schools to allow transgender students to use the bathroom of their choice, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said during a speech Friday.
Guidance memos can create de facto regulations that change laws without going through the review process involved with creating formal laws, the DOJ said in a statement. It said its lawyers would work to tear up existing guidance memos that go too far.
Too often, rather than going through the long, slow regulatory process provided in statute, agencies make new rules through guidance documentsby simply sending a letter, Sessions said at a convention of the conservative Federalist Society in Washington, D.C.
Guidance documents should be used to reasonably explain existing lawnot to change it. From now on at the Department of Justice, thats what they will do. I am announcing today that this practice is over.
Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/trump-sessions-obama-bathroom-transgender-guidance-memo-marijuana-715693
bucolic_frolic
(43,286 posts)should have their head examined
Pope George Ringo II
(1,896 posts)Anyone who cannot remember the past is destined to be Trump's Attorney General.
mpcamb
(2,875 posts)something else. The thing that comes to mind is "Jared Kushner Hiding Information About Russia Backdoor And Wikileaks Contacts".
trump's little moron offspring has a security clearance still and so it's suddenly "let's talk about bathrooms time".
Though they often look like fools, the r's and the trolls are good at distraction. Experts, in fact.
Keep your eye on the left hand when they start waving the right one.
Pope George Ringo II
(1,896 posts)But I don't think we should overestimate this regime's competence. To come out and say it, if Trump was even baseline competent he wouldn't have gone broke so often he's now owned by the Russians who kept bailing him out.
mpcamb
(2,875 posts)Russian trolls and bots, and control of the airwaves are fully capable of nefarious deeds.
We've been taken for a ride too often by underestimating the r's. They're not as dumb as they look or we're not as smart.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,861 posts)fuck trump!
iluvtennis
(19,871 posts)riversedge
(70,299 posts)Initech
(100,102 posts)orangecrush
(19,617 posts)Democrats - and Americans, are up against a white nationalist (nazi) cult, being financed, aided and abetted by Russian intelligence under the control of Vladimir Putin.
You do not win against this by fighting fair and playing by the rules, expecting them to do the same because you do is dangerously naive.