Talbott v. Trump (1:25-cv-00240)
Court dockets
- Talbott v. Trump (1:25-cv-00240): initial complaint
Background
TODO.
News
- 2025-02-27 Reviewing Trump's military order, judge says admin's anti-trans acts "scream animus" (www.lawdork.com)
- 2025-02-24 On DOJ's petty and small — but also alarming — complaint against a federal judge (www.lawdork.com)
- 2025-02-05 DOJ lawyer tells judge animus wouldn't be the end for Trump's anti-trans military EO (www.lawdork.com)
Preliminary injunction hearing
2025-02-18
Reyes goes off.
"You cannot tell me that transgender people are not being discriminated against." Of the Stonewall website deletion, Reyes says, "We are literally erasing their contributions to modern society. ... It screams animus."
"Every single pronoun in the history of mankind has been invented." - Reyes's response to this part of the EO:
Reyes asks whether saying an entire group of people are dishonest, undisciplined, and lack integrity — "people who have been under fire" — "expresses animus."
DOJ's Lynch will not provide a yes or no answer.
Reyes responds: "We are dealing with unadulterated animus."
DOJ refuses to say whether pronoun usage harms military preparedness, and Reyes is not happy about it.
"It is frankly ridiculous" to claim that. "You have 10 days to find me a person," she says, a commissioned officer, who says so, and they will have to get on the stand to discuss their position.
Jason Lynch from DOJ is the lawyer opposing the challenge to this executive order in court. He is a 2012 UVA Law grad who has worked at DOJ for most of the past 9 years.
Executive Order
2025-01-28
NEW: Here is Trump's anti-trans military executive order. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces