If
you
thought
being
appointed
to
the
bench
by
a
Republican
and
having
a
documented
history
of
measured
jurisprudence
was
enough
to
prevent
a
MAGA-head
from
trying
to
end
your
career,
boy,
are
you
wrong!
Republican
Congress
members
have
already
filed
articles
of
impeachment
against
U.S.
District
Judge
Paul
Engelmayer
for
issuing
a
temporary
restraining
order blocking
the
Department
of
Government
Efficiency
(DOGE)
from
accessing
Treasury
Department
data.
But
the
GOP’s
ire
isn’t
limited
to
jurists
appointed
by
Democrats.
Yesterday,
Rep. Andy
Ogles (R-Tenn.)
introduced
an
impeachment
resolution
against
U.S.
District
Judge John
Bates
because
he
had
the
audacity(!)
to
order
restoring
public
health
data
websites.
Ogles
really
lays
it
on
thick
too
with
his
articles
of
impeachment,
writing
Bates’s
decision
was
“so
utterly
lacking
in
intellectual
honesty
and
basic
integrity
that
he
is
guilty
of
high
crimes
and
misdemeanors.” Ogles
also
blasted
Bates
on
social
media,
calling
him
a
“RADICAL
LGBTQ
ACTIVIST,”
and
seeking
to
stoke
the
flames
of
indignation
by
saying
he’s
supporting
“surgical
or
chemical
castration
of
healthy
children.”
Sigh.
That’s
a
gross
misrepresentation
of
what
Bates
—
appointed
by
George
W.
Bush
—
actually
did.
U.S.
health
agencies
rushed
to
comply
with
Donald
Trump’s
anti-transgender
executive
order
asserting
there
are
only
two
sexes,
and
pulled
down
public
health
data
from
the
internet.
The
agencies
were
sued
by
a
physicians
group
that
argued
under
the
Paperwork
Reduction
Act
(PRA)
they
had
to
provide
adequate
notice
before
terminating
significant
information
products.
Bates
merely
issued
an
order
saying
the
datasets
had
to
be
temporarily
reinstated.
I
guess
Ogles
believes
“datasets”
and
“paperwork
reduction”
are
central
tenants
of
that
gay
agenda.
Kathryn
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Senior
Editor
at
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