Biden-Appointed Judge Cites Broadway Musical To Keep Trans Soldiers In Military

A Biden-appointed federal judge cited the Broadway musical “Hamilton” in a Tuesday night filing blocking the Trump administration from implementing its de facto ban on transgender people serving in the military.

United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia Ana Reyes cited the musical — a favorite production among liberals — in her Tuesday night ruling to assert that “all people are created equal” instead of referencing the Declaration of Independence’s famous “all men are created equal” line. Former President Joe Biden appointed Reyes to her spot on the bench in February 2023.

“The Court does not issue this preliminary injunction lightly. Judicial overreach is no less pernicious than executive overreach. But the coordinate branches must, ‘by their mutual relations, be the means of keeping each other in their proper places,’” Reyes wrote. “The President and Defendants could have crafted a policy that balances the Nation’s need for a prepared military and Americans’ right to equal protection. They still can. The Military Ban, however, is not that policy. The Court therefore must act to uphold the equal protection rights that the military defends every day. The Court’s opinion is long, but its premise is simple. In the self-evident truth that ‘all people are created equal,’ all means all. Nothing more. And certainly nothing less.”

Reyes Order 3-18 by Nick Pope on Scribd

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