Judge denies Trump request to delay transgender military enlistment
Source: the hill
By Rebecca Kheel - 12/11/17 01:15 PM EST
The Trump administration must accept transgender recruits into the military by Jan. 1, a federal judge ruled Monday.
The decision prevents a ban on enlisting new transgender troops that the administration had sought to implement after an earlier injunction against the president's order.
The court will not stay its preliminary injunction pending defendants appeal, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia wrote Monday.
In sum, having carefully considered all of the evidence before it, the court is not persuaded that defendants will be irreparably injured by allowing the accession of transgender individuals into the military beginning on January 1, 2018............................................
Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/defense/364283-judge-denies-trump-request-to-delay-transgender-military-enlistment
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(45,454 posts)they don't want us to have this important check and balance on the power of an out of control president who uses the constitution as toilet paper
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WASHINGTON (AP) Pentagon says it will allow transgender people to enlist in the military beginning Jan. 1, despite Trump's opposition.
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(364 posts)Social conservatives lost because we simply refused to go back into the shadows.
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(13,466 posts)Transgender troops are just troops, patriotic Americans with the bravery to defend our country.
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(16,976 posts)anything that pisses tRump off