Perhaps it’s the mark of our times, but everybody seems to want to be someone or something he’s not. Men are trying to be women, women want to be soldiers, judges appoint themselves legislators. “Amusin,’” as Li’l Abner used to say in the comics pages, “but confusin’.” But given the stakes, there’s no room for the confusing.
One U.S. District judge, Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the District of Columbia even imagines that she’s the commander in chief of the U.S. military services. She has blocked implementation of President Trump’s ban on transgendered soldiers and sailors, and has ordered the services to accept the sexually confused into their ranks by Jan. 1, 2018. That’s only 14 days away.
The president said in July that after consulting with his generals and admirals, he would instruct the services “not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. military.
“Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgenders in the military would entail.”
The president is on firm constitutional grounds. Article 2, Section 2 of the Constitution plainly states, in language that even a government lawyer can understand, that “The president shall be commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several states, when called into actual Service of the United States.”
Judge Kollar-Kotelly, who was appointed a federal judge by President Clinton, is not much impressed by that part of the Constitution. She even declined to grant additional time for the Pentagon to make preparations for receiving soldiers of suspect suitability.
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