Now The GOP’s Going After Their Own Judges When They Do Their Job
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If you thought being appointed to the bench by a Republican and having a documented history of measured jurisprudence was enough to prevent a MAGA-head from trying to end your career, boy, are you wrong! Republican Congress members have already filed articles of impeachment against U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer for issuing a temporary restraining order blocking the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing Treasury Department data. But the GOP’s ire isn’t limited to jurists appointed by Democrats.
Yesterday, Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) introduced an impeachment resolution against U.S. District Judge John Bates because he had the audacity(!) to order restoring public health data websites. Ogles really lays it on thick too with his articles of impeachment, writing Bates’s decision was “so utterly lacking in intellectual honesty and basic integrity that he is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors.” Ogles also blasted Bates on social media, calling him a “RADICAL LGBTQ ACTIVIST,” and seeking to stoke the flames of indignation by saying he’s supporting “surgical or chemical castration of healthy children.”
Sigh. That’s a gross misrepresentation of what Bates — appointed by George W. Bush — actually did. U.S. health agencies rushed to comply with Donald Trump’s anti-transgender executive order asserting there are only two sexes, and pulled down public health data from the internet. The agencies were sued by a physicians group that argued under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) they had to provide adequate notice before terminating significant information products. Bates merely issued an order saying the datasets had to be temporarily reinstated.
I guess Ogles believes “datasets” and “paperwork reduction” are central tenants of that gay agenda.
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