Administration Bans Memos Obama Used To Allow Transgender Students to Utilize Bathrooms of Choice

[DonViejo]

Source: Newsweek Magazine



Trump Administration Bans Memos Obama Used To Allow Transgender Student to Utilize Bathrooms of Choice

BY JOSH SAUL ON 11/17/17 AT 3:55 PM

The Department of Justice will no longer issue guidance memos, which had been used to create sweeping new rules, as when the Obama administration utilized them last year to force schools to allow transgender students to use the bathroom of their choice, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said during a speech Friday.

Guidance memos can create de facto regulations that change laws without going through the review process involved with creating formal laws, the DOJ said in a statement. It said its lawyers would work to tear up existing guidance memos that go too far.

Too often, rather than going through the long, slow regulatory process provided in statute, agencies make new rules through guidance documentsby simply sending a letter, Sessions said at a convention of the conservative Federalist Society in Washington, D.C.

Guidance documents should be used to reasonably explain existing lawnot to change it. From now on at the Department of Justice, thats what they will do. I am announcing today that this practice is over.



Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/trump-sessions-obama-bathroom-transgender-guidance-memo-marijuana-715693

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Anyone looking to Trump for guidance

should have their head examined

[Pope George Ringo II]

2. As the man said:

Anyone who cannot remember the past is destined to be Trump's Attorney General.

[mpcamb]

8. I get the impression that this is one of those distraction actions, an inflammatory move to mask

something else. The thing that comes to mind is "Jared Kushner Hiding Information About Russia Backdoor And Wikileaks Contacts".

trump's little moron offspring has a security clearance still and so it's suddenly "let's talk about bathrooms time".

Though they often look like fools, the r's and the trolls are good at distraction. Experts, in fact.
Keep your eye on the left hand when they start waving the right one.

[Pope George Ringo II]

9. There's some truth to this

But I don't think we should overestimate this regime's competence. To come out and say it, if Trump was even baseline competent he wouldn't have gone broke so often he's now owned by the Russians who kept bailing him out.

[mpcamb]

11. At no time should we assume trump is the brains behind anything. Paid help, tho, with Koch money,

Russian trolls and bots, and control of the airwaves are fully capable of nefarious deeds.
We've been taken for a ride too often by underestimating the r's. They're not as dumb as they look or we're not as smart.

[RKP5637]

3. As the US sinks farther downhill with this ass as president! n/t

[yuiyoshida]

4. HE really HATES OBAMA MORE than anyone in the whole world... the one guy He can not bully!f

fuck trump!

[iluvtennis]

6. Ditto. Disgusting asswipes.

[riversedge]

7. The US is being ruled by Trump hatred of Obama!

[Initech]

5. God damn I hate this administration.

[orangecrush]

10. Does anyone get it yet?

Democrats - and Americans, are up against a white nationalist (nazi) cult, being financed, aided and abetted by Russian intelligence under the control of Vladimir Putin.

You do not win against this by fighting fair and playing by the rules, expecting them to do the same because you do is dangerously naive.