Federal Judges Increasingly Block Presidential Orders
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(Worthy News) - In January, a little-known federal judge in Pennsylvania blocked new Trump administration rules that would have allowed employers to deny women free birth control benefits on religious and moral grounds.
Judge Wendy Beetlestone’s tool? A nationwide preliminary injunction enjoining the Trump administration from enforcing the rules not only in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the two states suing the government, but throughout the United States.
With the stroke of a pen, Beetlestone, an Obama appointee, blocked a policy albeit temporarily that opponents say could adversely affect the lives of millions of women. [ Source: VOA News (Read More...) ]
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President Trump is overhauling the Federal Judges. He just hasn't completed the overhaul in Pennsylvania yet.