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Seems the big news Friday is with the Supreme Court. Here’s one they punted:<\/p>\n

A transgender woman was unhappy that jailers in Fairfax, VA jailed him\/her with the other men and delayed his\/her hormone treatments.<\/p>\n

The justices rejected an appeal by a Fairfax County, Virginia sheriff of a lower court’s ruling allowing former inmate Kesha Williams, who had been diagnosed with gender dysphoria, to proceed with a lawsuit against jail officials.<\/p>\n

At issue was whether gender dysphoria, a condition involving distress resulting from a discrepancy between a person’s gender identity and their assigned sex at birth, qualifies as a disability under a landmark 1990 federal law called the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Basically, the ADA specifically excludes gender issues from the disabilities list.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit said Williams had lived as a woman prior to being jailed, possessed a Maryland state driver’s license identifying her as a woman and using her legally changed name, and had received hormone therapy in the form of a daily pill and biweekly injections for 15 years to treat gender dysphoria.<\/p>\n

The jail classified Williams as male because she “maintains the male genitalia with which she was born,” according to 2021 court records.<\/p>\n

Conservative Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented from the decision to deny the appeal. \u00a0\u00a0Reuters via Yahoo<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I find that last line interesting – wonder if the good justices wanted it heard so the issue could be settled?<\/p>\n

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And, on one of the big liberal losses, Chief Justice cited an unlikely authority for striking down the Biden student loan repayment plan – Nancy Pelosi.<\/p>\n

“People think that [the President] has the power for debt forgiveness,” she said in 2021. “He does not.” Insider<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No need to comment further on that.<\/p>\n

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And the Supremes decided to hear a case involving whether lower courts are over-using the Bruen <\/em>decision in striking down gun laws. That one will be interesting. I have seen Bruen used as a rationale for some very odd decisions, including “if it was not a restriction in 1790 it can’t be a restriction today” … ought to be interesting to see what, if any, limits the Supremes put on it.\u00a0 AP<\/a><\/p>\n

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Nasty allegations in a court-martial at Ft. Liberty (formerly Bragg) – a black LTC , Joy E. Thomas who has a purportedly a clean, if not stellar, Reserve record:<\/p>\n

Yet, in a proceeding that started last week, Thomas faces more than two dozen charges. Among them: 16 counts of making false official statements;\u00a0one count of desertion; two counts of being absent without leave; three counts of forgery; one count of making an unauthorized military pass or permit; two counts of disrespect toward a superior; and one count of conduct unbecoming of an officer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article is less than unbiased, but does make some interesting allegations:<\/p>\n

For Thomas and her lawyers, the reason is simple. She was a whistle-blower who reported \u201cfraud, waste and abuse\u201d in her chain of command at U.S. Army Reserve Command, according to a motion filed last August.<\/p>\n

NAACP President Jimmy Buxton, who is also an Army veteran, said on Tuesday he plans to attend the court-martial, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat it is .. is something that Black officers go through when they get 18 years of service,\u201d Buxton said. Typically, military personnel can receive full retirement after 20 years. Fayetteville Observer<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Okay now… It’s a bench trial, meaning no jury, and the presiding officer , COL Gregory Batdorf, is expected to rule quickly.<\/p>\n

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