A federal appellate court ruled last week that Oregon may house trans women inmates in men’s prisons, overturning a lower court’s ruling earlier this year.
The three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals consisted exclusively of Donald Trump appointees. They voted unanimously to overturn an April ruling from U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark D. Clarke ordering the Oregon Department of Corrections to assume that trans women prisoners should be housed in women’s prisons, and then assess individual cases to confirm that placement, not the other way around.
Wow.
This is just… wow.
This is a graphic case in point on why it was so fucking infuriating and agonizing to watch the Democratic Party categorically fail to do literally fucking anything to try to prevent - let alone counterbalance - the judicial fuckery the GOP has been engaging in for fucking decades.
Obama had a supreme court seat stolen from him and just shrugged. These people are worse than useless.
I was fucking baffled at how they were like “waaaahhhhh they’re cheating 🥺” and then did… nothing.
Absolutely.
Fucking.
Nothing.
It showed me exactly how seriously the Democratic Party took the matter, and how unfit for the task and the situation they had become. That was more or less the moment I began seriously losing faith in the integrity of the government, as well as losing any faith at all that the Democratic Party would be willing to lift a single fucking finger to save the republic.
The 9th circuit usually leans liberal, but Trump appointed 11 of the 29 circuit judges and this case drew 3 of them.