A federal choose on Wednesday shredded DOJ legal professionals and ordered Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth to problem a written retract over a transgender troops article he posted on X.
US District Decide Ana Reyes, a Biden appointee, blasted DOJ legal professionals throughout Wednesday’s listening to on President Trump’s government order on transgender troops.
In January President Trump signed the “Restoring America’s Preventing Power” government order and the “Prioritizing Army Excellence and Readiness” government orders, which direct each aspect of the U.S. navy to “function free from any desire primarily based on race or intercourse” and root out gender madness and made up pronoun utilization, respectively.
Final month Decide Reyes signaled she would aspect with a gaggle of transgender troopers who sued to dam President Trump’s government order on transgender troops.
Decide Reyes grilled DOJ legal professionals final month and mentioned that Trump’s government order asserting there are solely two genders is “not biologically right.”
“With the DOD coverage anticipated to be finalized over the approaching week, Reyes mentioned she would maintain off on issuing an order however had largely made up her thoughts concerning the legality of the order, at one level remarking that “smarter folks on the D.C. Circuit must inform me I’m improper” concerning the coverage. She added that the central premise of the chief order — that solely two genders exist — is “not biologically right.”” – ABC Information reported final month.
The activist choose blasted the DOJ legal professionals and requested them in the event that they knew how a lot the navy spends on Viagra yearly in comparison with gender dysphoria therapy.
This has nothing to do with fight readiness. The choose has already made up her thoughts.
DOJ lawyer Jason Manion identified that we don’t understand how many individuals we’re speaking about for either side of the argument, and it might be that the therapy for gender dysphoria is far more costly, it might be only a matter of a lot fewer folks receiving the therapy.
— Jake Gibson (@JakeBGibson) March 12, 2025
Decide Reyes gave Hegseth till Monday to problem a written retraction over his put up that acknowledged, “Pentagon says transgender troops are disqualified from service with out an exemption”
“Pentagon says transgender troops are disqualified from service with out an exemption” https://t.co/VGa16iZKqf
— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) February 27, 2025
Excerpt from Fox Information:
A federal choose tore into legal professionals from the Justice Division on Wednesday, homing in on a retweet from Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth about disqualifying transgender troops from service “with out an exemption.”
Through the listening to, Reyes pointed to a put up on X wherein Hegseth quoted, “Pentagon says transgender troops are disqualified from service with out an exemption.” The put up in query linked to a Fox Information Digital article about an inner Pentagon memo.
The memo, revealed in a courtroom submitting late final month, says U.S. service members who’re transgender or in any other case exhibit gender dysphoria are prohibited from navy service except they acquire an exemption.
When Reyes questioned authorities legal professionals that Hegseth’s repost made it seem that each one transgender troops could be disqualified from service, DOJ lawyer Jason Manion argued that Hegseth was solely utilizing “shorthand” for the broader coverage.
“Have a look at the phrases within the coverage,” mentioned Manion.
“No!” mentioned Reyes. “Do you actually suppose you are able to do that, say one factor in public after which come right here to courtroom and say one thing else totally?”
Decide Reyes has a historical past of abusing Trump’s DOJ legal professionals.
Final month, the Justice Division filed a proper criticism in opposition to a federal choose assigned to Trump’s government order on transgender troops for partaking in “egregious misconduct” towards its counsel.
The Justice Division detailed Decide Reyes’ surprising statements towards its attorneys in final month’s listening to.
“Throughout these hearings, Decide Reyes engaged in hostile and egregious misconduct that violates Canons 2A and 3A(3) of the Code of Conduct for United States Judges, which requires judges to “act always in a fashion that promotes public confidence within the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary” and “be affected person, dignified, respectful, and courteous to litigants,” the DOJ wrote in a criticism in opposition to Decide Reyes.
The DOJ detailed two incidents of abuse of its attorneys.
The Justice Division mentioned throughout her lecture on the “30 completely different intersex examples,” Decide Reyes grilled one in every of its legal professionals about his non secular beliefs after which used him unwillingly as a “bodily prop in her courtroom theatrics,” the DOJ wrote.
The DOJ requested that “applicable motion be taken to deal with” the violations and requested an investigation.
