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A US JUDGE has blocked federal guidelines instructing public schools to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms and other private facilities of their choice.
US District Judge Reed O’Connor ruled yesterday in favour of Texas and 12 other states, which have sued the federal government over the new rules.
The regulations were designed to create safer environments for transgender students at public school districts and universities.
US authorities had issued written guidelines in May, built on existing laws against sexual discrimination, which asked schools to let youths use the bathrooms matching their gender identity rather than the sex on their birth certificate.
The letter suggested that not doing so could run afoul of laws barring gender discrimination.
But O’Connor ruled that the federal government had violated procedures in issuing the new standards and incorrectly interpreted existing laws. He said:
The guidelines are, in practice, legislative rules – not just interpretations or policy statements because they set clear legal standards.
Existing federal laws regarding a person’s sex were intended to be limited to “the biological and anatomical differences between male and female students as determined at their birth,” the judge said.
Overreach
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who brought the lawsuit and is lead plaintiff, celebrated the ruling. In a statement, Paxton said:
We are pleased that the court ruled against the Obama administration’s latest illegal federal overreach.
“This president is attempting to rewrite the laws enacted by the elected representatives of the people, and is threatening to take away federal funding from schools to force them to conform.”
The gay and transgender rights advocacy group Human Rights Campaign expressed disappointment and hope that the new trans guidelines will ultimately prevail, as legal battles continue over the scope of gender discrimination laws in public schools.
The ruling “puts thousands of transgender students at even greater risk of marginalisation, harassment, and discrimination as they return to school this fall,” HRC Legal Director Sarah Warbelow said in a statement.
All students, regardless of their gender identity, deserve to be able to learn in an environment free from discrimination.
O’Connor said his ruling does not preclude states following the federal guidelines if they wish to do so, but states were free to ignore the guidelines without fear that they would be breaking the law.
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It’s strange how the media just ignored her threat of military action against both Russia and China in retaliation for any future cyber attacks.
Not really, they mostly dont want trump in, so not going to tarnish her too much. Also, I’m sure Klinton influence reaches into the tiny media pool sources sufficiently to keep the best stuff redacted!
Lots of things are strange in regards to Hilary. Admitting she couldn’t recall briefings when she was secretary of state. Then one has to wonder did she forget At times , she was receiving or sending classified information .
FBI Director James Comey recently said his agency could prove the presence of classified information in the e-mails but found no evidence to indicate that Clinton knew she was sending or receiving classified information — a conclusion reflected in the FBI documents released today.
“Clinton did not recall receiving any emails she thought should not have been on an unclassified system,” reads a summary of the FBI’s findings from July.
Well if she was forgetting briefings. Surely that’s also a possibility.
Also the fact this release is on a Friday afternoon is planned. Will gather much less traction than earlier in the week. Oh and the 14 pages of redactions.
Not to mention . FBI report says HillaryClinton used 13 different devices to send & receive emails. None could be found & examined by FBI.
Yawn. Go to the beach more often people this stuff will not make your lives any better
But yet your here tom. What’s that say about you?
Tom is correct. If you think Hillary has done any wrong, you’ll truly believe anything at this stage. Let’s have another anti- water movement. That will satisfy your inane want of being the robotic, illogical, compete dregs of society…
honestly its yet another US election big swing on the mickey. its not going to change anything and its not even our continent.
No but your children might have to fight in the wars it starts
just like we had to when our parents gave a shit?
On the 31s August in Hillary Clinton’s address to the American Legion she spoke about cyber attacks by Russia and China. She stated that Russia had hacked the DNC and that future cyber attacks would be treated the same as any attack on the United States and that the U.S. Would be ready with “political, economic and military” responses.
Trump has been hammered for his rhetoric and Hilary just threatened war with a Nuclear superpower in the event of cyber attacks that are thought to have originated from Russia.
Would anyone like her to clarify these comments? Oh wait sorry she doesn’t answer questions or hold press conferences (Now over 270 days) and the media seem to have very little interest in anything negative about her.
There is a very good chance she could be the next POTUS and have control of the largest military force and largest arsenal of Nuclear Weapons. Perhaps it would be a good idea to ask her questions?
Clinton does not have to do press, all she has to do is let Trump keep saying stupid things and she has the presidency handed to her.
At this rate it’s Trump or war. She’s a rotten evil warmongering deluded bitch and Trump just runs his mouth.
Hillary has already been selected by the corporations and bankers who run the world. Trump never really had a chance it was just a sideshow. It is amazing that her supporters don’t care about the serious issues surrounding her that are ignored by the corporate media and yet every clumsy word of Trump is picked over and analysed. Scary to watch people being so manipulated and controlled. Redacted now where did I hear that before ?
This woman should be in jail.
So should we all, if what others said about us was true.
So should Trump, for child rape. http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/10619944
Well it’s about time the journal reporters done a bit of Hillary reporting I thought they had been gagged as they only seem to find negative trump story’s to tell. .
stop giving a sh!t
Do yoy have any positive Trump stores to report?? No, no you don’t. He’s going to lose. Deal with it.
Shes an evil despot, Trump is a fool…… Choose.
There should be a none of the above option and if that wins then they need to find 2 new candidates.
Sanders as third party candidate? With the current choice I am surprised more aren’t begging for that
Ahhh, but the people don’t actually choose. Each State’s Electoral College do the choosing, IIRC.
She has to get elected first and according to a Reuters/Ipos poll out today. Trump has pulled level.If she can;t beat Trump despite his outrageous outbursts, what does that say about her?
Sorry Andy .. I agree they are both bad but Trump is the lesser evil. . Hillary will destroy us all that’s a fact she has already done so much that if her second name was not clinton she be on death row !!! It’s shocking she got this far as I said Trump not a great candidate but I’d trust the grim riper over Hillary
You do know that things that haven’t actually happened can’t be facts right?
How many more facts would you like Dave ?? Do you want to interview one to one ?? It be hard seen as she stopped doing interviews because she keeps tripping herself up with her lies !! So I think you will have to settle for all the Facts that are in the realised emails that came from one of her 13 servers !!! Next u be telling us she needed 13 servers to update her twitter account or something !!! There is hiding from the truth and there been stupid you can’t be both
She does interviews all the time, it’s press conferences she doesn’t do. It was 13 devices not 13 servers. Not great with facts yourself.
Also, I didn’t mention support for any candidate. She is a rotten apple, better than Trump but still bad. I would be voting fir neither of them if I had a vote.
@Jamie
I’ve noticed just about every day there is a negative Trump article here on the journal. It’s blatantly obvious to anyone which candidate they prefer. They need to work on their “balanced and unbiased” reporting. Both these candidates are toxic. But at this point Trump is marginally less so.
You mean 13 mobile devices not servers
Why doesn’t she do press conferences? Bit strange considering she is running for president.
What is now 280 odd days.
Clinton last did a press conference on December 5, 2015.
Ops I ment device my bad . .. I never claimed to be technology savie but that don’t change what she done !!! My point was that there are alot of facts out there end off !!! And I don’t think anyone can deny the fact she been caught out in one lie after another ..
Totally agree Deirdre .
Trump is the lesser evil if you have no concept of right and wrong. If it was 100 years ago, he’d be wanting to deport Irish immigrants.
Jamie, both candidates lie, repeatedly. Also there’s nothing tech savvy about reading an article and copying information from it. It’s just funny that you questioned my intelligence at the same time.
At least Hillary lies about the same thing repeatedly unlike Trump who just basically lies about everything. What worries me about Trump is his judgement. He called for the reinstatement of the death penalty to kill 5 boys that were falsely accused of rape, he took out full page ads asking for them to be put to death before they had even had a day in court, they were convicted with no DNA evidence, no witnesses, just confessions with they said were beaten out of them. Years later the actual perpetrator was caught and hos DNA matched DNA at the scene. So these boys were released. Make no mistake about it, if Trump had been in charge they’d be dead. Also after they won their civil suit against the state Trump was asked to comment, he called it “the heist of the century.” That’s pretty much how his campaign has been. Lash out at “the others” wait for a day for reaction, if you got it wrong double down. At least he has finally started having confederate flags taken down at his rallies. Oh yeah, 38% of Trump supporters would prefer it if the south had won the civil war and those 5 boys Trump wanted dead? 4 black 1 Hispanic.
@ Deirdre, thejournal.ie have very little understanding of balance and bias, just look at the trend in all the articles they copy and paste onto their site. Anything that goes against it is in danger of being taken down.
To be fair to her negotiating the internet is probably difficult with serious brain issues.
I’ll tell you what though if I was an American I’d be very worried that someone with faulty faculties had access to the Nuclear Option.
So she admitted she could not recall every briefing she got as secretary of state . That’s worrying. What she did things she can’t remember doing. She should be not running for president.
What is she did things she can’t remember.
If . Sorry..
Touch of the Hilary’s there Littleone.
Lol. At least I remembered I wrote it wrong. Unlike Hilary who forgot things.
Littleone……at least she remembers the traumatic incidents that affected her life, like coming under sniper fire as she landed in Bosnia in 1996…….oh wait…that actually didn’t happen…….so when does she tell the truth?
That’s true Al cal. She also can’t remember where the 13 different devices she used for sending and receiving emails according to fbi. They couldn’t be found and examined. She must have a head like a sieve.
“Mmmmh….now where is that big red button?”
if you care that much, feck off to america
Little one, tell us every thing you’ve done in the past 8 years.
What was the briefing on February 2nd 2010 about? Would you expect her to have that answer immediatly?
Hillary was no Techie as she didn’t even know how to use the fax machine. But not to worry longtime very close friend and confidant Saudi-raised Huma Abedin was. Huma comes from a family who were and are up to their necks in Muslim Brotherhood propaganda and global terror support . Huma was able to look after Hillary’s tech needs and feed her all the MB dis-info on the ME that Hillary relied on Huma Abedin to advise her on.
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Abedin: Can you hang up the fax line? They will call again and try fax.
Clinton: I thought it was supposed to be off hook to work?
Abedin: Yes, but hang up one more time. So they can reestablish the line.
Clinton: I did.
Abedin: Just pick up phone and hang it up. And leave it hung up.
Clinton: I’ve done it twice now. Still nothing.
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/01/huma-abedin-hillary-clinton-adviser
Breaking news 4.15am……… Hillary Clinton is a liar and is very likely be suffering from delusions of world power. Source: her history as Secretary of State and former First Lady.
My head hurts, neither of them are creditable candidates, just wish all this s#ite was done with, just roll the dice.
Hillary is a terrible choice for president… but trump is worse.
If i were american id choose one of the other parties. They are the only viable option this year. But sadly they wont be elected as the media would make you believe there is only one choice…
Why is Trump a worse candidate? Can you explain in detail why this is so? Trump might come across as a bit peculiar and may seem to have opinions that you may not agree with. But have you actually done any research on Hillary Clinton? She is a liar and is crooked as the day is long.
If I were American I would, no way on Earth would she get my vote. She is elusive and tries to be aloof when confronted by someone wanting her to address issues. The only thing that she has going for her her is that she is the front running female candidate, that and the fact that she feels it’s her destiny to be president.
Why it’s he a worse candidate? Because he’s apedophile. http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/10619944
Not condoning her use of a private server but if the person who you are sending an email to has been hacked it is irrelevant where the email is being sent from!
Ah well that’s ok then !!!! All is forgiven
Go back to Ireland, Jamie. America is only for white Protestants.
Current President rather invalidates that comment.
She was on the dark web, see above link and this one…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3771474/Clinton-email-server-hit-dark-web-tools-Hillary-worried-hacked-getting-send-link-porn.html
Joseph Siddall – it wasn’t a statement about the president. It was a statement about Trump supporters’ attitudes and their white privilege. Sorry if that went over your head.
Philip, sorry I didn’t pick up that specific reference from what I saw as a wide generalisation.
Russia and China will be fuming that these emails haven’t helped their boy Trump to get into office.
Dear God Alpha, that was a bad one from you…
Sorry for the longwindedness above but in summary she did something that if any other US person did it they’d be facing a court and a couple decades in stir. She’s not. And none of the above bodes well for a future in which He Who Shall Not Be Named Without Trumpets doesn’t win, which is the only scenario in which there might be a future at all. Which is itself evenso fairly dark or else so bright not even shades will stop our retinas from burning through.
For her own selfish reasons she arrogant,y thought herself above the law or didn’t even bother to familiarise herself with it in an area of perhaps the greatest sensitivity and gravity of all: State security. In context of the US Export Control regulations she undoubtedly caused “deemed exports” I.e. The making available to foreign nationals of controlled data, instructions, and intellectual property and she did it circumventing normal mandatory controls that apply to every US citizen legal or natural without exception and that mean all such causing a “deemed export” need the approval of State and Commerce in the form of an export licence issued on foot of End User Certs that bind the recipient not to divert nor use in unabbroved fashion such controlled data and information. That is a fact, even, if she did it inadvertently, because say her email contacts had their data hacked by adversaries, or intentionally, and as such I is also a crime, as is even making attempts to circumvent controls on deemed or other controlled exports is. Simply the action of setting up a clandestine home brew server that could have been compromised by an expedient as complicated as Van Eyck phreaking or as simple as the guy who installed it in her attic running a clandestine hardline Cat 6 cable to a hidden Ethernet port or router concealed outside her house, implies a strong suspicion of a crime.
What exactly are “hostile foreign actors”
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