President Donald Trump has asked a judge to cancel a crucial hearing in a legal appeal over an Obama’s rule regarding transgender bathroom use.
The Obama edict threatened schools in the US with the loss of federal funding if they didn’t allow boys who say they are girls and vice versa to share bathrooms, showers, locker rooms, and hotel rooms on overnight school trips.
Family Research Council president Tony Perkins said the Justice Department has taken a “welcome first step.”
“We are hopeful that the Trump administration will formally withdraw the Obama edict so that parents and schools will remain free to protect the privacy and safety of every student,” said Perkins.
“We are proud to lead a 13-state coalition against the Obama administration’s latest illegal federal overreach,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement at the time. “This president is attempting to rewrite the laws that were enacted by the elected representatives of the people, and is using the threat of losing federal funding to get schools to fall into line. That cannot be allowed to continue.”
The Blaze reported that the White House appealed O’Connor’s injunction in October and, in a separate request, asked that the judge at least modify the ruling to only apply to the 13 states that initially appealed the transgender directive. O’Connor, however, did not honor the request, saying, “A nationwide injunction is necessary because the alleged violation extends nationwide.”
A hearing on the appeal request was scheduled for Tuesday. But the Trump administration, in a Friday filing at the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, asked to withdraw the motion filed by the Obama administration to roll back O’Connor’s ruling on the controversial guidance, according to the Associated Press.
The filing came on the heels of the swearing in of Jeff Sessions as U.S. attorney general. The Justice Department’s filing said the parties involved are “currently considering how best to proceed in this appeal.”
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