White House cannot shield information on transgender military ban: judge Jonathan Stempel

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Source: Reuters



AUGUST 15, 2018 / 4:35 PM / UPDATED 42 MINUTES AGO

(Reuters) - A federal judge in Baltimore rejected the Trump administration’s request to shield information it employed when deciding to ban transgender people from the U.S. military.

The decision on Tuesday by U.S. Magistrate Judge A. David Copperthite came in a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf more than one dozen transgender people serving or who want to serve in the military.

Copperthite declined to decide whether President Donald Trump deserved a protective order for his own communications, pending a ruling on whether to dismiss Trump as a defendant.

Andy Reuss, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Justice, declined to comment.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-military-transgender/white-house-cannot-shield-information-on-transgender-military-ban-judge-idUSKBN1L0259

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2. Can only imagine what name he has for them.

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3. Let's see this info

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4. ...ACLU lawyer Josh Block said the decision means the administration must set forth its "actual reas

....ACLU lawyer Josh Block said the decision means the administration must set forth its “actual reasons” for the ban.

“It is difficult to believe that concerns about fitness and deployability changed so dramatically in such a short time,” Block said in an interview. “It suggests they may have been a pretext for a discriminatory purpose.”

The case is Stone et al v Trump et al, U.S. District Court, District of Maryland, No. 17-02459.

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