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Judge blocks enforcement of Trump's transgender military ban

Southern Dad said:
Apparently not in the mind of this judge. This judge is stopping the Trump Administration from banning transgender individuals from serving openly in the military. It was banned under all previous presidents including President Obama.
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The judge is wrong. President Trump should ignore the ruling and enforce the ban.
 
apdst said:
He's doing what he said he would do.
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Really? Well...

1) He said he would build a wall. Now he relies on Mexico to get him off the hook because they won't pay for it. Of course, with conservatives applauding tax cuts across the board, I guess prayers are going to build the wall.

2) He promised to appoint a special prosecutor towards Hillary Clinton. Then he declared that he wasn't really interested in that after he was elected. But now, with all the Russia heat, it appears that he is interested in tapping back into that well.

3) He declared NATO obsolete, implying that we were through. Months after being elected he decided that NATO was no longer obsolete.

4) He promised to repeal Obamacare, which was entirely based on years of GOP rhetoric. When it came down to it, neither he nor the GOP had a plan and tried to pull the same sort of rush-job crappery that Democrats did.

5) He promised to drain the swamp. He filled the swamp immediately.

6) He promised to spend less time on the golf course, after using this to denigrate Obama's lack of duty to the American people. After elected, he went on to outpace Obama on the golf course.

So...a special prosecutor, Obamacare, the wall, the swamp... These were pretty much the biggies, weren't they?

He has flipped on everything he promised to do. He has the worst 100 days on record and this is largely because he entered the White House floating on a cloud of rhetoric instead of a practical agenda. And now he is scrambling all over the place, through Twitter, over this Russia issue, while conservatives betray their own ideologies of anti-communism. There was a time when one could rely on the conservatives to be the practical ones. What happened? The American identity crisis is obvious to me.

You don't need to be a part of this crap. It is perfectly fine to be "very conservative" and recognize that Trump falls very short and is entirely undeserving.
 
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What difference does it make if a transgender girl decides to pick an MR15 and blows the enemy away??!!

I see no problem with that. A dead enemy is a dead enemy!!
 
apdst said:
Because President Trump is acting within his constitutional authority.
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So you believe that members of military do not have the same rights as other workers and can be fired at will by the President?
 
Napoleon said:
So you believe that members of military do not have the same rights as other workers and can be fired at will by the President?
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No, members of the military do not have the same employment rights as civilian workers. Serving in the military isnxt a right.
 
apdst said:
No, members of the military do not have the same employment rights as civilian workers. Serving in the military isnxt a right.
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Eligibility for military service isn’t a right, but a person who is already in the military should or does have a right to due process so they are not summarily discharged for no reason other than the President doesn’t like their gender identity and against the reccomendation of his generals.
 
Napoleon said:
Eligibility for military service isn’t a right, but a person who is already in the military should or does have a right to due process so they are not summarily discharged for no reason other than the President doesn’t like their gender identity and against the reccomendation of his generals.
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poweRob said:
Another Trump decree bites the dust.

Judge blocks enforcement of Trump's transgender military ban

A federal judge on Monday partially blocked enforcement of key provisions of President Donald Trump's memorandum banning transgender people serving in the military.

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly blocked provisions of the memorandum concerning the enlistment and retention of transgender military service members, holding that the plaintiffs "have established that they will be injured by these directives, due both to the inherent inequality they impose, and the risk of discharge and denial of accession that they engender. "​
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You don't have a right to be in the military - as much as a Judge might feel otherwise (and as much as I agree wholeheartedly Trump makes foolish, impulsive, and self-destructive decisions), this is clearly an Article II decision, and belongs with the Commander in Chief.

We have a system, and judges are not kings.
 
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