In a 2-1 ruling from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Lawrence VanDyke, a Trump appointee, said the Miss United States of America pageant that celebrates women is allowed under the First Amendment’s protection of speech not to allow men who identify as females to compete.
Federal court rules female-only beauty pageant doesn't discriminate against transgender contestants
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He said the facts of Cordero’s case were so egregious that the two Democratic-appointed judges in the majority — Judge Barry Ted Moskowitz, named by President Clinton, and Judge Andrew D. Hurwitz, tapped by President Obama — were reluctant to even recount them.
Federal court protects sexual predator from deportation
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