Roy Moore: Impeach Judge Who Blocked Trump's 'Transgenderism' Order

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo




By MATT SHUHAM Published OCTOBER 31, 2017 11:08 AM

Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore said Monday night that the federal judge who issued an injunction against President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender people serving in the military “should be impeached.”

The decision by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, Moore said in a statement shared with TPM, “is absolutely ridiculous and is a perfect example of the outlandish doctrine of judicial supremacy whereby judges exalt themselves over the Constitution they are sworn to uphold.” (Read Moore’s full statement below.) Kollar-Kotelly granted a preliminary injunction Monday to stop Trump’s policy — which began with a tweet — from going into immediate effect.

Moore said the American Psychiatric Association considered, in his words, “transgenderism to be a mental disorder” until 2013. (The APA’s board of trustees approved the removal of “gender identity disorder” from its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in late 2012, replacing it with “gender dysphoria.”)

“And only in 2016 did the Obama administration attempt to impose that delusion upon our fighting forces,” Moore continued. “To say that President Trump cannot prohibit transgenderism in the military is a clear example of judicial activism. Even the United States Supreme Court has never declared transgenderism to be a right under the Constitution.”

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Read Moore’s full statement below:

“The decision of a federal judge in the District of Columbia enjoining President Trump’s executive order on transgenderism in the military is absolutely ridiculous and is a perfect example of the outlandish doctrine of judicial supremacy whereby judges exalt themselves over the Constitution they are sworn to uphold. As recently as 2013, the American Psychiatric Association considered transgenderism to be a mental disorder. And only in 2016 did the Obama administration attempt to impose that delusion upon our fighting forces. To say that President Trump cannot prohibit transgenderism in the military is a clear example of judicial activism. Even the United States Supreme Court has never declared transgenderism to be a right under the Constitution.

“Judge Kollar-Kotelly should be impeached by the House of Representatives for unlawful usurpation of power (Article II, § 4) and lack of good behavior (Article III, § 1), and referred to the Senate for a vote on removal. Not only has she placed herself above the Constitution in finding such a nonexistent right, but she has also interfered with the powers of the President as Commander in Chief of the armed forces under Article II, § 2, of the Constitution.

“Unless we return to faithful obedience to the Constitution and the separation of powers set out therein, our form of government and our liberties will be in dire jeopardy. Congress should not turn a deaf ear to this flagrant usurpation of executive authority.”

[bucolic_frolic]

1. To politicize the judiciary is pushing radical right extremism as far as it can go

the end gotta be in sight somewhere

[billh58]

2. What a maroon... n/t

[Initech]

3. God he is such a fucking asshole.

[Sneederbunk]

4. Yet Alabamans can hardly wait to vote for him.

[Docreed2003]

5. This is rich coming from Moore

“is absolutely ridiculous and is a perfect example of the outlandish doctrine of judicial supremacy whereby judges exalt themselves over the Constitution they are sworn to uphold.”

The guy hasn’t made his fucking career off of outlandish ideas of his own version of “judicial supermacy”. I can’t stand that hypocritical cockroach.

[Saviolo]

6. This right here:

To say that President Trump cannot prohibit transgenderism in the military is a clear example of judicial activism. Even the United States Supreme Court has never declared transgenderism to be a right under the Constitution.

That is an unusually explicit effort to make sure that LGBTQ+ people know that they do not have a right to be visible, to be open, or basically to even exist in the public space. Normally it's just a dog whistle, but this statement is 100% "No. Trans people do not have the right to *exist* in the public space." Take a close look at how he worded that second part there, that "transgenderism" is not a right under the Constitution.

And Moore wants to complain about this judge being a radical activist judge, when Moore himself has been removed from office TWICE because of his radical activism. Once in placing the Ten Commandments in a courthouse, and one after ordering Alabama judges to to disobey the SCOTUS ruling on same-sex marriage. Does anyone remember this?:

The COJ ethics hearing was held on November 12, 2003. Moore repeated his earlier sentiment that "to acknowledge God cannot be a violation of the Canons of Ethics. Without God there can be no ethics." He also acknowledged that he would repeat his defiance of the court order if given another opportunity to do so, and that if he returned to office, "I certainly wouldn't leave [the monument] in a closet, shrouded from the public." In closing arguments, the Assistant Attorney General said Moore's defiance, left unchecked, "undercuts the entire workings of the judicial system... What message does that send to the public, to other litigants? The message it sends is: If you don't like a court order, you don't have to follow it." Moore had previously stated his belief that the order was unlawful, and that compliance with such an order was not an enforceable mandate.

And here is the list of charges after his 2016 debacle:

Violation of the Alabama Canon of Judicial Ethics, for disregarding a federal injunction.
Violation of the Alabama Canon of Judicial Ethics, for demonstrated unwillingness to follow clear law.
Violation of the Alabama Canon of Judicial Ethics, for abuse of administrative authority.
Violation of the Alabama Canon of Judicial Ethics, for substituting his judgement for the judgement of the entire Alabama Supreme Court, including failure to abstain from public comment about a pending proceeding in his own court.
Violation of the Alabama Canon of Judicial Ethics, for interference with legal process and remedies in the United States District Court and/or Alabama Supreme Court related to proceedings in which Alabama probate judges were involved.
Violation of the Alabama Canon of Judicial Ethics, for failure to recuse himself from pending proceedings in the Alabama Supreme Court after making public comment and placing his impartiality into question.

Roy is the very picture of a radical right-wing activist judge, teeming with impartiality and "judicial supremacy" that is not just tinged, but entirely coloured by his religious bigotry, a large target of which is the LGBTQ+ population.

[mpcamb]

7. Stuff a sock in his mouth.

[jmowreader]

8. There are other reasons he wants her gone

She's the presiding judge in "ACLU v. Trump and Pence."

In March 2016, she allowed the chief of police of Washington, DC, to continue denying concealed carry permits.

She ordered Cheney and the National Archives to preserve all Cheney's official records.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colleen_Kollar-Kotelly

[Shaddox]

9. You have to read Boss Hoggs bullshit in a Foghorn Leghorn voice

To get the full effect. Jesus Christ, put all your guns in your pockets and ride your horse into the ocean, you fucking idiot.

[Rollo]

10. I hope the Dem defeats Moore in the election...

The downside is that if Moore loses, Trump (or Pence) will probably appoint him to the Supreme Court...

[sandensea]

11. The problem's that they cheat.

You know how fond Republicans are of playing with their electronic voting machines.

[SergeStorms]

12. In all likelihood....

this sorry sack of shit will be elected Senator from Alabama. I've never thought too much of Alabama, and the people there never seem to disappoint. Un-fucking-believable.

[truthisfreedom]

13. Separation of powers is so confusing to these dotards.