US agencies temporarily barred from enforcing LGBTQ guidance (AP)

[Pete Ross Junior]

US agencies temporarily barred from enforcing LGBTQ guidance (AP)

A judge in Tennessee has temporarily barred two federal agencies from enforcing directives issued by President Joe Biden’s administration that extended protections for LGBTQ people in schools and workplaces.

U.S. District Judge Charles Atchley Jr. in an order on Friday ruled for the 20 state attorneys general who sued last August claiming the Biden administration directives infringe on states’ right to enact laws that, for example, prevent students from participating in sports based on their gender identity or requiring schools and businesses to provide bathrooms and showers to accommodate transgender people.

Atchley, appointed by President Donald Trump in 2020, agreed with the attorneys generals’ argument and issued a temporary injunction that prevents the agencies from applying that guidance on LGBTQ discrimination until the matter can be resolved by courts.

“As demonstrated above, the harm alleged by Plaintiff States is already occurring — their sovereign power to enforce their own legal code is hampered by the issuance of Defendants’ guidance and they face substantial pressure to change their state laws as a result,” Atchley wrote.

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1. Trump's Judicial legacy will fuck the nation for generations

He didn't pick them, just signed off on the worst possible candidates laid before his sharpie.

[Irish_Dem]

2. The US unelected federal judiciary is now our only ruling body.

We have no voice in their appointments.

[IngridsLittleAngel]

3. Remember the reich whining about "Dems wanting to appoint activist judges..."?

Good times. Typical fucking QOP projection too.

That's right, though. It seems like anytime we try to get a judge appointed, we have to hear the Nazis whining about how we want to appoint "activist judges that will legislate from the bench." All the while... We're having this country torn apart and rights burnt to ashes by reich-wing activist judges legislating from the bench.

If it's not the Fascist Five unraveling gun control and Roe, it's thugs like this redneck judge Atchley basically blocking President Biden's executive orders. Executive orders meant to protect vulnerable people who have faced nonstop hatred and discrimination here in 2022.

This fascist wants to talk about harm? You wouldn't know the first thing about harm, Itchley. There has been real fucking harm done to LGBTQ's here in 2022 in those so-called "plaintiff states" who want their "state rights" (more like state rights to tear apart lives and harm innocent people.)

How dare this southern-fried crooked judge speak about "harm". The only ones that have been harmed in 2022 have been us. And I'm also going to guess he did not speak to one LGBTQ before issuing this horrible, hateful ruling.

I'm beyond sick of this shit. We're just trying to live our lives in peace while one so-called "party" of goons are trying to tear our rights apart. All along the way, they can count on "help" from scum like this judge. Another goddamned Drumpf-appointed judge whose only purpose is to burn the Constitution and tear the country apart.

This is absurd. Each and every day, the mask comes off and this country is revealed to be a nation of hate, bigotry, cruelty and abuse. Sure, the blue states are still fine. But the red states are becoming Jesusland, a fascist, Drumpf-humping nation of bigotry, hate, corruption and fascism.

Hopefully this can be fought back against. Because as usual, Joe Biden was trying to do truly great things with these executive orders... only to have the American Nazis derail it all yet again.

Fuck Drumpf. Fuck these Christofascists.