Ten states sue Obama to stop his transgender blackmail

It's not quite as dramatic as a state telling Obama to take his federal funds and shove them where the sun doesn't shine, and it's potentially rife with unintended consequences: What if the Scalia-less Supreme Court rules that the president can issue arbitrary conditions for the receipt of federal funds at his own personal whim? Roger Goodell's lawyers might have some suggestions for Obama on this one. But at least they're fighting. Texas, Alabama, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Tennessee, Maine, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Utah and Georgia have sued the administration in federal court. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott appears to be the leader of the effort:

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Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday that the state's attorney general, Ken Paxton, would challenge the controversial order, which tells school district to allow transgender students to use the restroom of their choice. No other details were immediately available Wednesday about the number of states joining in on the suit. Abbott announced the litigation in a tweet. Abbott, a former state attorney general himself, has made his lawsuits against the Obama administration a touchstone of his political profile. The state is currently awaiting a decision from the Supreme Court on the constitutionality of the Obama administration's executive actions on immigration.

If schools lose federal funds as a consequences of noncompliance with Obama's "guidelines," that will fall most heavily on poor students, because the bulk of federal education funds are for programs to help poor students. Apparently Obama has no problem with putting these poor students at risk if that's what it takes to push his agenda of men using the ladies' room on no greater authority than their own say-so.

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Trust me, dude, I'm trans. I identify as female. OK. As far as Obama's concerned, that's all that's needed, and any authority that doesn't accept that needs to be threatened and de-funded. I'm convinced that the bigger game here is to pick a fight with the right on a cultural issue, because the left is convinced that it always wins these fights and loves having them in election years. I yield to no one in my expectation that the general public will follow cultural trends like brain-dead automatons, but even I'm not sure the public is ready to embrace this agenda. As far as this case is concerned, sadly, the outcome will probably come down to which judge is drawn. You get a solid Bush- or Reagan-appointed judge, or a majority of such on a panel of judges, the ten states probably win. Anyone else? Eh . . . I don't like the odds. The law today is as politicized as anything else.

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