Ohio Attorney General Breaks Down Leftist Legal ‘Trick’

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is just not going to permit one lone decide to dictate whether or not the youngsters of Ohio are protected against “transgender” surgical procedures and hormones, he shared in an interview with The Daily Signal.

Yost requested the state’s Supreme Court to intervene after Judge Michael Holbrook issued a short lived restraining order for House Bill 68, the Saving Ohio Adolescents From Experimentation, or SAFE, Act, on Tuesday.

That legislation bars physicians from performing “transgender reassignment” surgical procedures on kids and from prescribing cross-sex hormones or medication to dam kids’s puberty. It additionally would permit college students to sue if they’re disadvantaged of a good taking part in discipline in sports activities on account of transgender activism (equivalent to a boy who “identifies” as a lady taking part in on a women’ volleyball workforce) and would shield mother and father’ rights to boost their kids in response to their organic intercourse.

A supermajority of Republican lawmakers voted to override Gov. Mike DeWine’s controversial veto of the invoice in January, and earlier than Holbrook blocked it, it was scheduled to enter impact on April 24.

On Monday, Yost, the Medical Board of Ohio, and the state of Ohio filed an emergency movement for a writ of prohibition, asking that Holbrook be ordered to change his momentary restraining order to “comply with Ohio statutory and procedural limitations.”

The Ohio lawyer common mentioned the transfer and what he hopes will ensue from right here in an interview with The Daily Signal.

“This is actually a trick that the Left has been using for a long time,” he defined. “Go to court with a couple of sympathetic plaintiffs, get a court order restraining the law from applying to anybody anywhere, and then use it to avoid majority rule and democratic processes that we have here in America.”

“It’s contrary to the law, it’s a misuse of the judicial process, and its fundamentally anti-Democratic,” he stated.

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