Trump-Appointed Judge Calls Administration's Behavior 'Appalling' In 24-Page Ruling

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Huff Post

May 14, 2026, 07:18 PM EDT | Updated 11 hours ago


A federal judge blasted the Trump administration for its “reckless” efforts to mislead and manipulate the courts, and target transgender youth by pressuring hospitals to disclose sensitive medical information, according to an order issued Wednesday night.

Judge Mary S. McElroy, who was nominated to the U.S. District Court of Rhode Island by President Donald Trump in 2019, halted the Department of Justice’s subpoena into more than five years of records about transgender minor patients at Brown Health’s Rhode Island Hospital. “The DOJ has proven unworthy of this trust at every point in this case,” McElroy wrote in a 24-page ruling. “Its representatives have, under oath, misrepresented salient facts.”

McElroy’s ruling is the latest blow to the Trump administration’s efforts to obtain private medical information about transgender youth and their healthcare providers. Thus far, seven other federal courts have blocked the DOJ from enforcing its subpoenas, finding that they were issued for an “improper purpose.”

“The Administration has publicly characterized gender affirming care for minors as abuse, directed the DOJ to bring its practice to an end, and celebrated when hospitals curtailed such programs as a result of this subpoena campaign,” McElroy wrote.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/doj-immediately-appeals-to-subpoena-trans-patients-health-records-after-judge-blocks-attempt_n_6a063dcde4b098065be8a659?origin=home-latest-news-unit

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Link to ORDER (PDF) - https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.rid.62049/gov.uscourts.rid.62049.44.0.pdf

[GiqueCee]

1. The only thing...

... more rotten than a Trumpublican, is the third of the electorate infested with them.
They are, without exception, sociopathic ghouls devoid of empathy, compassion, or the remotest nanoparticle of common human decency. And they're proud of it. I shall read their obituaries with an abundance of schadenfreude.

[OldBaldy1701E]

2. That crap has Miller's fingerprints all over it! (n/t)

[Joinfortmill]

3. This fixation on transgender people is weird and entirely lacks empathy

[Maraya1969]

4. Transgendered people are just next in line. First it was gays. Now there are openly gay peole

even in the Trump administration. Then they went into a fury about drag queens. And now it is transgendered people.

They have to have someone to hate. They have to have someone to look down upon. I think it is because they do not feel ok about themselves and of course they don't! They teach that they were born in sin and it is only Jesus that saves them!

Plus I think the cult of born again Christians creates cruelty and a desire to hurt others. When my brother was young he was a very sensitive guy. After he became a born again Christian and became a pastor some of the things he did were so cruel and hateful. I don't think the boy that I grew up with would have ever behaved like that had he not been brainwashed by that organization.

Here is one story: During Covid he and his wife were into refusing to wear a mask. Our mother had died in 2020 so they had been coming down here taking care of her estate etc, (and yes the scumbag stole money from me during the process.) I had developed a type of asthma called "Eosinophilic asthma" which meant that I was reacting to the Eosinophiles in my blood and I was very sick and very scared of covid. So he emailed me and said they were coming down and did I want to visit and I said sure but they would have to wear a mask. He then said we could "Sit outside" I am in South Florida and it was May and extremely hot and I do not sit outside when that is the situation. I could barely walk anyway. So I told him that and he just said, "Well we'll catch you the next time"

Our mother had just died and I was seriously sick and he and his wife couldn't put on a paper mask to visit me. I was shocked but I really shouldn't have been. He has since died so I never did see him.

[Joinfortmill]

5. Wow. So sorry.