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Judge drops hammer on Trump admin: ‘You’re violating my order!’
Court Orders Are Not SuggestionsPower Is Still the PointThe central fact in this story is not confusion inside the Bureau of Prisons. It is power. The Trump administration issued the anti-trans executive order, and the federal prison system carried it out. Transgender women in federal custody did not create this problem. The state did, then tried to rename the damage as policy compliance.A Reagan-appointed federal judge, Royce Lamberth, saw the pattern clearly enough to say the government was violating his order “on its face.” That is the real conflict here: not a technical disagreement over…
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