You can't make this up.
A federal judge has ordered the CDC, FDA, and HHS to put the Biden-era webpages regarding gender ideology back up on the CDC, FDA, and HHS sites.
Why not force them to give instructions on how to give frontal lobotomies to misbehaving children, as was a common practice until the 1960s?
BREAKING: A judge orders the CDC, FDA and HHS to restore webpages that were deleted to comply with a Trump executive order. https://t.co/oVC6BSQXFZ
— CBS News (@CBSNews) February 11, 2025
Washington — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Food and Drug Administration to restore webpages and data that had been scrubbed in compliance with President Trump's executive order on gender ideology while litigation moves forward.
U.S. District Judge John Bates agreed to grant a temporary restraining order sought by the group Doctors for America, which argued that its members used the websites when treating patients and conducting research. The nonprofit organization said that the removal of the webpages by the Department of Health and Human Services and its components violated federal law.
Bates found that the challengers were likely to succeed in their claims that the Department Health and Human Services, CDC and FDA acted unlawfully when they stripped medical information from public-facing websites.
"It bears emphasizing who ultimately bears the harm of defendants' actions: everyday Americans, and most acutely, underprivileged Americans, seeking healthcare," he wrote. Citing declarations from two doctors filed in the case, Bates said if they "cannot provide these individuals the care they need (and deserve) within the scheduled and often limited time frame, there is a chance that some individuals will not receive treatment, including for severe, life-threatening conditions. The public thus has a strong interest in avoiding these serious injuries to the public health."
Doctors for America was part of Barack Obama's campaign--originally Doctors for Obama--and its mission is to promote every left-leaning cause you can imagine in health care. It has pushed for gun control, defunding the police, and closing down prisons during the pandemic.
Doctors for America filed its lawsuit against the health agencies on Feb. 4, alleging they violated a federal law that governs the agency rulemaking process and another that requires federal agencies to ensure the public has "timely and equitable access" to their public information.
The group argued in court papers that its members relied on the scrubbed information to provide treatment, conduct research and inform public health responses on topics like youth risk behaviors, adolescent health and HIV.
Doctors for America said some of its members were already experiencing challenges as a result of losing access to information from the CDC. In one instance, it said a Chicago-based physician who works at a clinic serving low-income immigrant families could not consult the CDC's website for resources on how to address a chlamydia outbreak at a local high school and bolster STI testing and prevention efforts.
Another doctor, who is also a researcher at the Yale School of Medicine, said in a declaration that she lost the ability to consult CDC resources about prescribing treatments.
Anybody with an ounce of sense knows that no doctor consults any of these web pages for advice on how to treat patients. The idea is absurd on its face.
So if the government “long encouraged” something, then judges can tell the executive branch what specific webpages it can have?
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) February 11, 2025
Really? That’s the compelling, constitutional argument you are presenting as normal and not what we know it is? https://t.co/QoOORFBtVS
This is judicial activism, pure and simple.
Guess who was behind this? Mandy Cohen, Biden's head of the CDC. This Mandy Cohen.
The CDC can start winning trust back by replacing the current @CDCDirector with someone who cares about making public health about science again, and not about what your girlfriends tell you on the phone. https://t.co/aQJx9gCwyq pic.twitter.com/O2IydT8mnX
— Kevin Bass PhD MS (@kevinnbass) September 18, 2023
Sounds like somebody who should be in charge of our health care decisions, Judge. A person whose view of science boils down to making decisions based on gossiping with her girlfriends.
The organization was founded by Alice Chen, Vivek Murthy, and Mandy Cohen.[3] In 2008 Cohen was National Outreach Director for the organization.[17] She served as the organization's policy director and later as Executive Director.[18][17][19] On October 5, 2009, 50 of the organization's members met with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office, followed by a reception at the White House Rose Garden, for the White Coat Rally.[17]
On 14 November 2013, the co-founder and president of Doctors for America, Dr. Vivek Murthy, was nominated by U.S. President Barack Obama to be the Surgeon General of the United States.[20] He served as the 19th Surgeon General, and was in office from December 18, 2014 – April 21, 2017.[citation needed] Murthy worked on then-candidate Obama’s New England steering committee shortly before founding Doctors for Obama.[21] In October 2022, President Joe Biden nominated Murthy to be the U.S. representative on the World Health Organization's executive board. [22] Other senior advisors to Doctors for Obama, including Irwin Redelener and David Blumenthal, also simultaneously served as advisors to candidate Obama’s campaign.[1]
In 2019, the National Physicians Alliance merged with Doctors for America.[23] Doctors for America has also maintained financial partnerships with other major organizations, including the Center for American Progress[24] and Planned Parenthood.[25]
Expect to see a lot more of it in the near future. As I have said, the left has declared total war against Donald Trump. Federal agencies change their webpages all the time, and the idea that each change can be challenged in federal court by activists to ensure that they say exactly what they want them to is absurd.
This truly just BLOWS MY MIND
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) February 11, 2025
We handed Donald Trump a historic victory, not some random activist judges no one’s ever heard of pic.twitter.com/uMhWfw8yzP
I cannot predict whether or when any of this nonsense makes its way to the Supreme Court, nor what the court would do when faced with the cases, but as a citizen, I find it outrageous that a judge would take it upon himself to decide what edits can be made on websites.
For all the talk about "norms," "muh democracy," and all the arrogant BS the Democrats push out there, it all comes down to raw power.
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