At a fiery District Court hearing in Washington, D.C., Judge Ana Reyes, a Biden-appointed federal judge, chastised Department of Justice lawyer Jason Lynch tasked with representing the Defense Department in a federal lawsuit challenging President Trump’s executive order barring transgender individuals from serving in the military.
“An order signed by the President of the United States calls an entire category of people, dishonest, immodest, people who have received medals for taking fire for this country, can you tell me whether that language expresses animus,” Judge Reyes asked Lynch.
“Yes, no, or I don’t know?” Reyes asked, to which Lynch answered: “I don’t know.”
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Judge Reyes exploded, “We are dealing with unadulterated animus, an entire group of people who have served this country, calling them liars!” This is a policy of the President of the United States affecting thousands of people, she said. “To call an entire group of people liars who have no integrity, how is that anything other than showing animus,” Judge Reyes asked.
Lynch argued this is not a transgender ban, it is a pause while the Defense Secretary determines how to align policy to the President’s Executive Order.
“If we had President Trump here and we asked him if this was a transgender ban what do you think he would say,” Judge Reyes asked Lynch.
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Lynch answered that he didn’t know. Judge Reyes went on, “He would say of course it is because he calls it a transgender ban.”
On January 27 President Trump signed an Executive Order “Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness” which stated that “the…
