The Justice Department filed charges of judicial misconduct against Biden-appointed District Judge Ana C. Reyes for overt hostility toward the government in Thursday’s hearing on President Trump’s Executive Order barring transgender applicants from joining the military. Attorney General Pam Bondi’s chief of staff accused Reyes of engaging in “hostile and egregious misconduct” during the hearing.
During the hearing, Reyes ceased to act as an impartial factfinder and engaged in argumentation that made it very clear that she was dismissive of the idea that transgenders who are unable to deploy worldwide because of the absence of specialized medical treatment were a drag, so to speak, on readiness; see SecDef Hegseth Orders an End to Enlisting Transgenders – RedState and Federal Judge Ana Reyes Likely to Block Trump Ban on Trans in the Military – RedState.
The fact that Reyes is openly one of the alphabet people had nothing to do with it. Because that would not lead her to proclaim, without a whit of scientific evidence, that “This executive order is premised on an assertion that’s not biologically correct,” Reyes said. “There are anywhere near 30 intersex examples. Anyone who doesn’t have XX or XY chromosomes is not just male or female, they’re intersex.”
The letter alleges many incidents but focuses on two. In one, she demanded to know the religious views of the DOJ attorney, Jason Lynch. Then, this incredible exchange happened.
“What do you think Jesus would say,” Reyes proceeded to ask, about an action that revokes a transgender person’s access to homeless shelters?
“Do you think he’d say ‘sounds right to me’ or ‘WTF, let them in?'”
Lynch extracted himself by saying, “The US government is not going to speculate about what Jesus would have to say about anything.” […]
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