federal court judge rips into the DOJ for lying
the DOJ tried ot use a texas court to enforce a subpeona against a rhode island hospital for records about gender affiming care
The DOJ figured the texas court would allow whatever they wanted.
the hospital instead had teh case transferred to rhode island where a judge proceded to tell the DOJ to fuck off.
the first 2 paragaphs of her order.
The United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) possesses immense prosecutorial authority and discretion. As citizens, we trust that federal prosecutors, when wielding this awesome power against a state, a company, or certainly against vulnerable children, will play fair and be honest with its counterparts and the judiciary.
DOJ has proven unworthy of this trust at every point in this case. It has misrepresented and withheld information to both this Court and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas (the “Texas court”). It did so in an obvious effort to shield it’s recent investigative tactics—previously rejected by every other court to review them—from this Court’s review, in favor of a distant forum that DOJ deems friendly to its political positions. Its representatives have, under oath, misrepresented salient facts. It has misled the parties with whom it was negotiating in Rhode Island, who have now been placed in an untenable and unprecedented procedural position. And when its attorneys came to this Court to explain their
conduct, the senior attorney—who was present at many of the events that took place in this case—sat silently by as his counterpart, a junior attorney who has been practicing law for approximately six months and had no relevant information, was forced to answer questions about DOJ’s blatant disregard for the proper course of negotiations.
the court threw out the subpoenas.
frankly they should do more and start locking up the lawyers filing these cases.
link to the order
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28132578-ri-trans/