OPINION:
Donald Trump’s election prompted a competition among liberal jurists. Each seeks to one-up the other in devising more outlandish proclamations that signal resistance to the 47th president’s authority. The latest such edict forces executive acceptance of “X” as a valid identifier of someone’s sex.
If Tuesday’s ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Julia E. Kobick were merely an expression of that Boston-based judge’s personal view, that would be one thing. Yet this unelected magistrate has compelled the State Department to resume printing special passports for transgender activists, contrary to the orders of the secretary of state.
The “X” passport was a novelty created during Joseph R. Biden’s term, and Judge Kobick didn’t appreciate the new administration’s overturning the work of the president who appointed her to a cushy lifetime gig.
“The plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits of their equal protection claim because … the Executive Order