Reagan-Appointed Judge Temporarily Stops Trump Admin From Pulling Men Out Of Women’s Prisons

A Reagan-appointed federal judge temporarily stopped the Trump administration from moving three male inmates out of women’s prison facilities on Tuesday in part because they don’t “present any threat” to female inmates.

District Judge Royce Lamberth, who took the bench in 1987, ruled on Tuesday to temporarily block President Donald Trump’s executive order to keep men in men’s prisons even if they identify as women. The ruling was in favor of “three male-to-female transgender women” who sued the Department of Justice (DOJ) in the Washington, D.C., district court to stop their transfer, alleging that Trump’s directive violates federal law and their constitutional rights.

Women across the U.S. have reported trans-identifying male inmates attacking or raping them in women’s prison facilities. Male convicts also have a repeated pattern of committing violent crimes and later identifying as women in prison, alarming policy experts but drawing sympathetic media coverage.

“The not so much as alleged that the plaintiffs in this particular suit present any threat to the female inmates housed with them, or that this threat cannot be managed locally by prison staff,” Lamberth said in his