{"id":1710500,"date":"2022-10-25T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T17:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1710500"},"modified":"2022-10-25T13:33:30","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T17:33:30","slug":"judge-strikes-biden-dojs-burdensome-bully-tactics-against-opponents-of-trans-surgeries-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-strikes-biden-dojs-burdensome-bully-tactics-against-opponents-of-trans-surgeries-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Strikes Biden DOJ\u2019s \u2018Burdensome\u2019 Bully Tactics Against Opponents Of Trans Surgeries For Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjudge-strikes-biden-dojs-burdensome-bully-tactics-against-opponents-of-trans-surgeries-for-kids%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1710500&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A federal judge in Alabama <a href=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/cf281a096a7f20fa26c87fe14\/files\/15ab59d3-be3f-21a3-f7ad-ede5834462ba\/DE_192_Opinion_Order.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">quashed<\/a> the invasive subpoena the Biden administration served on the conservative Eagle Forum and Southeast Law Institute, holding the material sought from the nonprofits fell outside the scope of discovery relevant to the Department of Justice\u2019s lawsuit challenging Alabama\u2019s law banning chemical and surgical transgender experimentation on minors. Monday\u2019s victory proves Americans can fight back against the Biden administration\u2019s weaponizing of the DOJ.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Justice had subpoenaed the Eagle Forum and Southeast Law Institute in August, demanding all materials related to the nonprofits\u2019 support of the Alabama Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act (VCAP). Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey had signed VCAP into law on April 8, 2022, with the legislation banning puberty blockers, wrong-sex hormones, or surgical procedures performed on minors \u201cif the practice is performed for the purpose of attempting to alter the appearance of or affirm the minor\u2019s perception of his or her gender or sex, if that appearance or perception is inconsistent with the minor\u2019s sex.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Less than two weeks later, in <em>Eknes-Tucker v. Marshall<\/em>, four transgender-identifying children, their parents, and several others sued the governor of Alabama and other state officials, challenging the constitutionality of VCAP. The plaintiffs in the <em>Eknes-Tucker <\/em>case argued that VCAP violates the constitutional right of parents to obtain medical treatment for their children and the equal-protection rights of transgender minors. The Biden administration quickly joined the lawsuit as a plaintiff, asserting the same equal-protection argument as the children.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In May, federal Judge Liles Burke, a Donald Trump appointee, granted the plaintiffs a preliminary injunction, keeping the statute from going into effect pending resolution of the case. Alabama appealed the court\u2019s injunction to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, and a hearing is tentatively scheduled for Nov. 14, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, however, the Department of Justice moved forward with discovery, serving at least two nonprofit groups, the Eagle Forum and the Southeast Law Institute, with invasive subpoenas demanding that the organizations provide the federal government with documents related to their efforts to push for passage of the VCAP, including communications with their members and state legislators. In total, the Biden administration sought 11 broad categories of material, spanning from Jan. 1, 2017, through the present day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Eagle Forum and the Southeast Law Institute \u2014 neither of which were parties to the lawsuit \u2014 filed motions to quash the DOJ\u2019s subpoenas, arguing that none of the requested material was relevant to the question of the constitutionality of the VCAP, that subpoenas infringe on their First Amendment rights, and that compliance with the subpoenas would be unduly burdensome to the nonprofit organizations, which lack the staff and resources necessary to pull the requested documents.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Judge Burke \u2014 the same judge who had enjoined enforcement of the statute \u2014 granted the motions to quash, finding the requested information outside the scoop of discovery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe subpoenas command Eagle Forum and Southeast Law Institute to produce eleven broad categories of evidence, ranging from draft legislation, to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday&#8217;s decision probably won&#8217;t stop the Biden DOJ&#8217;s abuse of power, but the Eagle Forum and Southeast Law Institute\u2019s victory is proof the battle can be won.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":1710503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1710500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1710500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1710503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1710500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1710500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1710500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}