The judge blocking President Donald Trump’s transgender ban was a leftist activist lawyer who previously presented challenges to President Trump’s border security agenda.

Before former President Joe Biden appointed her as District Court Judge for Ana Reyes in Washington, DC Sued in 2018 to block Trump’s rules requiring illegal borders to be crossed require that official ports of entry be passed. Reyes, who has donated to many Democrats, is now facing legal complaints accusing them of bias against Trump’s lawyers, asking them what “yes say” about transgender policies. Federal Donation Record Shoreyes had already given money to the presidential campaigns of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden as well as other Democrats in 2008.

Before her appointment, Reyes I worked for A Washington-based law firm Participation The left group first presented the National Center for Immigration Justice and human rights to the first Trump administration in 2018. The lawsuit was challenged Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Rules It denied asylum for migrants who did not pass the screening process at ports of entry, claiming that the policy violated its “right to seek asylum.”

an Obama’s appointment judge He controlled with the plaintiff’s favor In 2019, he blocked rules until Biden took office, overturning Trump-era border policies, and The case has been dropped.

Reyes ruled on Tuesday that Trump’s January executive order had “discriminate” people with gender discomfort from US military service and blocked policies. she was praise As the first openly LGBTQ and Latino woman to serve in Washington District Court when Biden appointed her. (Related: Trump’s Pentagon says that transgenderism is “incompatible” with military missions)

The Department of Defense did not immediately respond to requests for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.

“Leaders have been concerned about military preparations to deny marginalised people,” Reyes’ ruling on Tuesday said. “The first minority, then the women in battle, and the Gaze filled that void.”

“But today our troops are stronger and our country is safer for millions of such voids (and everyone else),” Reyes said.

Trump’s Department of Defense (DOD) argues that “gender discomfort is not compatible with the high mental and physical standards required for individuals who have a current diagnosis or history or exhibit symptoms.” Trump’s orders said requiring that they be treated as the opposite sex is not consistent with the humility and selflessness necessary for service members.

The Ministry of Justice (DOJ) accused Rays of “hostile and terrible misconduct” in the handling of a transgender case in February’s complaints against the judge in the February complaint. DOJ complained that Reyes was “literally erasing trans people,” and refuted DOJ’s lawyers during the hearing “about his religious views.”

“What do you think Jesus would say to telling groups of people that they are so unworthy and so unworthy that we wouldn’t let them in the homeless shelter?” According to the DOJ, Reyes said at the hearing. Reyes appeared to say Trump’s Housing and Urban Development Agency (HUD) has announced that it will end a Democrat-backed policy that will lead federal funding for domestic violence shelters that are conditional on the acceptance of men into women’s spaces.

“Do you think Jesus sounds right to me?” “Reyes is said to have asked the DOJ. “Or do you think Jesus would say, “wtf? Let’s put them in, of course?” ”

Currently, district court judges envision the mantle of the Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State, Secretary of Homeland Security and Commander. Every day, they change the administration’s foreign policy, economy, staffing and national security policy. every day…

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Any complaints about Rays will be added In progress Conservative Criticism “Activist” judges say the Trump administration is crossing their boundaries. So far, judges have stagnated other Trump instructions amid silence of suspected gang members and terrorist college students, cancelling green energy funds, policies banning women’s prison men, and lawsuits.

Reyes’ office did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Until Friday, Reyes has put Trump officials on emergency appeals in support of military policy.

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